1. A genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
   "The club was known for its cutting-edge jazz performances"
    
2. A style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands
   "The speakeasy was filled with the sounds of hot jazz"
    
3. Empty rhetoric, insincere or exaggerated talk
   "don't give me any of that jazz";
   - wind, malarkey, malarky, idle words, nothingness

1. (music) play something in the style of jazz
   "The band jazzed up the old standard, giving it a modern twist"
    
2. [US, vulgar, archaic] Have sexual intercourse
   "they jazzed in the back of the car";
   - sleep together, love, make love, sleep with, have sex, know [archaic], do it [informal], be intimate, have intercourse, lie with [archaic], bed [informal], get it on [informal]

Derived forms: jazzes, jazzed, jazzing

Type of: copulate, couple, dance music, mate, pair, play, popular music, popular music genre, spiel, talk, talking

Encyclopedia: Jazz, the Personal Dimension