a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles | slang for sexual intercourse |
a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands | a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head |
empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air |
| a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole |
| someone who guards prisoners |