Meaning

• Noun

  1. A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
  2. Energy, excitement, excitability.
  3. The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s).
  4. Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
  5. Nonsense.
  6. (slang) Semen, jizz.
  7. A red-skinned variety of eating apple.

• Verb