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Jazz

noun

Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk. Synonyms: idle words, malarkey, malarky, nothingness, 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.

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"Jazz" Quotes from Famous Books

... that man from the start. Something told me he was a dancer. Well, this finishes it. We're out here till breakfast-time. If those blasted servants come back before eight o'clock, I shall be vastly surprised. You won't get Seppings away from a dance till you throw him out. I know him. The jazz'll go to his head, and he'll stand clapping and demanding encores till his hands blister. Damn all dancing butlers! What is Brinkley Court? A respectable English country house or a crimson dancing school? One might as well be living ...

— Right Ho, Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse

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