Usually means: Improvisational, expressive music with swing.
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  1. jazz: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. jazz: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jazz: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jazz: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jazz: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jazz, Jazz, jazz: Wordnik
  7. jazz: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Jazz, jazz: Wiktionary
  9. jazz: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jazz: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jazz: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. jazz: Dictionary.com
  13. jazz: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. jazz: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. jazz: Rhymezone
  17. Jazz (m), jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz (de), jazz (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. Jazz: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. jazz: Free Dictionary
  20. jazz: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. jazz: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. Jazz: World Wide Words
  23. Jazz (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Jazz Humor (No longer online)

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  1. jazz: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jazz: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. JAZZ: Acronym Finder
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  3. jazz: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. jazz, jazz: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. jazz (up): Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

(Note: See jazzing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (music) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
noun:  (figurative) Energy, excitement, excitability.
noun:  The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s).
noun:  (with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
noun:  Nonsense.
noun:  (slang) Semen, jizz.
noun:  A red-skinned variety of eating apple.
verb:  (slang) To destroy; to ruin.
verb:  To play (jazz music).
verb:  To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
verb:  To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting.
verb:  (slang) To complicate.
verb:  (intransitive, US slang, dated) To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.
verb:  (slang, transitive) To distract or pester.
verb:  (slang) To ejaculate.
noun:  A diminutive of the male given name James.
noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Jasmine.

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