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jazz
1 a: American music developed especially from ragtime and blues and characterized by propulsive syncopated rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, varying degrees of improvisation, and often deliberate distortions of pitch and timbre b: popular dance music influenced by jazz and played in a loud rhythmic manner2: empty talk : humbug <spouted all the scientific jazz
— Pete Martin>3: similar but unspecified things : stuff <that wind, and the waves, and all that jazz
— John Updike>
— jazz·like
\-ˌlīk\
adjective
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