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say it: jaz
jazz is a noun and verb meaning "empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk". It is pronounced /ˈdʒæz/ — jaz. It carries 5 recorded senses.
empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
“that's a lot of wind”
“don't give me any of that jazz”
a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands
jazz
have sexual intercourse with
“This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm”
“Adam knew Eve”
“Were you ever intimate with this man?”
archaism
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for jazz come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.