Meaning of JAZZ
| Pronunciation: | | jaz
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- [n] a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands
- [n] a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
- [n] empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"
- [v] 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?"
- [v] play something in the style of jazz
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| | 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, idle words, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, nothingness, screw, sleep with, wind |
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| | See Also: | | ballroom music, bebop, boogie, boogie-woogie, bop, cool jazz, copulate, couple, dance music, danceroom music, fornicate, have, hot jazz, jive, mate, modern jazz, neo jazz, new jazz, pair, play, popular music, popular music genre, scat, scat singing, spiel, swing, swing music, take, talk, talking, trad | |
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| | Definition: | |  Jazz
The unnamed omniscient narrator--like a Greek chorus, or a tribal storyteller--relates the story of Joe and Violet Trace, a pair of orphans who meet and marry in rural Virginia, then come north to Harlem in 1906. Trapped in their unfulfilling marriage for 20 years, Joe begins an affair with a young woman, Dorcas. When she leaves him, he kills her--an act which, oddly, restores his relationship with Violet. Throughout the novel, the rhythms of jazz in early-20th-century New York propel the narrative. more details ... |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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