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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
jazz
    n 1: empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a
         lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz" [syn:
         wind, malarkey, malarky, idle words, jazz,
         nothingness]
    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
    v 1: play something in the style of jazz
    2: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with
       everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever
       intimate with this man?" [syn: sleep together, roll in the
       hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get
       laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have
       intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck,
       jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it,
       bang, get it on, bonk]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
jazz \jazz\ n.
   1. A type of music that originated in New Orleans around 1900
      and developed through increasingly complex styles, but
      generally featuring intricate rhythms, improvisation,
      prominent solo segments, and great freedom in harmonic
      idiom played frequently in a polyphonic style, on various
      instruments including horn, saxophone, piano and
      percussion, but rarely stringed instruments. [WordNet
      sense 1]
      [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

   2. empty or insincere or exaggerated talk; as, don't give me
      any of that jazz. [WordNet sense 2]

   Syn: wind, idle words, nothingness.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   3. A style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to
      New Orleans jazz but played by large bands.
      [WordNet 1.5]

Thesaurus Results for jazz:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
acid rock, avant-garde jazz, ballroom music, baloney, bebop, boogie-woogie, bop, bull, bushwa, concert, country rock, crap, dance music, dances, dramatico-musical, flimflam, folk rock, guff, hard rock, hot, hot jazz, instrumental, jazzed up, jazzy, jive, mainstream jazz, malarkey, moonshine, musical suite, orchestral, poppycock, rag, ragtime, ragtimey, rhythm-and-blues, rock, rock-and-roll, suite, suite of dances, swing, swingy, symphonic, syncopated, syncopated music, syncopation, the new music
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