GLENN MILLER Synonyms

• the leader of a dance band

• someone who composes music, usually as a profession

• the person who leads a musical group

• a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat

• the person who collects fares on a public conveyance

• a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc.

• empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

• 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

• play something in the style of jazz

• have sexual intercourse with

• someone who plays a music as a profession

• artist who composes or conducts music as a profession

• a musical organization consisting of a group of instrumentalists including string players

• seating on the main floor in a theater

• a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity

• mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth

• a sweeping blow or stroke

• changing location by moving back and forth

• a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz

• a jaunty rhythm in music

• the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it

• in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball

• a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them

• move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting

• move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner

• change direction with a swinging motion; turn

• influence decisively

• make a big sweeping gesture or movement

• hang loosely

• hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement

• alternate dramatically between high and low values

• live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style

• have a certain musical rhythm

• be a social swinger; socialize a lot

• play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm

• engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends

• a musician who plays the trombone

• a large dance or jazz band usually featuring improvised solos by lead musicians

• someone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill)

• United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)

• machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it

• United States novelist whose novels were originally banned as pornographic (1891-1980)

• any of various moths that have powdery wings

• United States playwright (1915-2005)

• United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)