a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles | creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire |
a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands | an offensive or indecent word or phrase |
empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | any fungus of the order Ustilaginales |
| destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores |
| a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink |