jazz

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: jazz

1	n v	a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles play something in the style of jazz
2	n	empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
3	v	have sexual intercourse with

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: jazz

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singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument; bebop, bop
an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940); boogie, boogie-woogie
an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano); cool jazz
jazz that is restrained and fluid and marked by intricate harmonic structures often lagging slightly behind the beat; funk
an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar; hot jazz
jazz that is emotionally charged and intense and marked by strong rhythms and improvisation; modern jazz, neo jazz, new jazz
any of various styles of jazz that appeared after 1940; trad
traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s; jive, swing, swing music
a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz

Type of:: popular music, popular music genre
any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)

“don't give me any of that jazz”

Synonyms:: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with

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have sex with; archaic use; fornicate
have sex without being married; swing
engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends; whore
have unlawful sex with a whore; wench
frequent prostitutes; bed-hop, bedhop, sleep around
be sexually active with more than one partner

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