JAZZ

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jazz mean? 

• JAZZ (noun)
  The noun JAZZ has 3 senses:

1. empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

2. a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles

3. a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands

  Familiarity information: JAZZ used as a noun is uncommon.

• JAZZ (verb)
  The verb JAZZ has 2 senses:

1. play something in the style of jazz

2. have sexual intercourse with

  Familiarity information: JAZZ used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JAZZ (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

idle words; jazz; malarkey; malarky; nothingness; wind

Context example:

don't give me any of that jazz

Hypernyms ("jazz" is a kind of...):

talk; talking (an exchange of ideas via conversation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("jazz" is a kind of...):

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

Domain member category:

jazz (a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands)

funky; low-down ((of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jazz"):

scat; scat singing (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)

Derivation:

jazz (play something in the style of jazz)

jazzy (resembling jazz (especially in its rhythm))

Sense 3

Meaning:

A style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("jazz" is a kind of...):

dance music (music to dance to)

Domain category:

jazz (a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles)

Derivation:

jazz (play something in the style of jazz)

jazzy (resembling jazz (especially in its rhythm))

• JAZZ (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they jazz    ... he / she / it jazzes   
Past simple: jazzed   
Past participle: jazzed   
-ing form: jazzing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Play something in the style of jazz

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "jazz" is one way to...):

play; spiel (replay (as a melody))

Domain category:

music (musical activity (singing or whistling etc.))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They will jazz the duet

Derivation:

jazz (a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands)

jazz (a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Have sexual intercourse with

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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; jazz; know; lie with; love; make love; make out; roll in the hay; screw; sleep together; sleep with

Context example:

Were you ever intimate with this man?

Hypernyms (to "jazz" is one way to...):

copulate; couple; mate; pair (engage in sexual intercourse)

Verb group:

make out; neck (kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "jazz"):

have; take (have sex with; archaic use)

fornicate (have sex without being married)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

The new moon on November 26 will fall in Sagittarius at four degrees, and it will go much further to jazz your daily work sector.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The music had died down as the ceremony began and now a long cheer floated in at the window, followed by intermittent cries of "Yea—ea—ea!" and finally by a burst of jazz as the dancing began.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

A celebrated tenor had sung in Italian and a notorious contralto had sung in jazz and between the numbers people were doing stunts all over the garden, while happy vacuous bursts of laughter rose toward the summer sky.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)