Definition: jazz

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

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,
           idle words, 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" (know is archaic);
        "Were you ever intimate with this man?" [syn: 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, eff, hump, lie with,
         bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk]