Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Jazz or swing music.
- noun The jargon of jazz musicians and enthusiasts.
- noun Slang Deceptive, nonsensical, or glib talk.
- intransitive verb To play or dance to jive music.
- intransitive verb To talk in an exaggerated, teasing, or misleading way.
- intransitive verb To talk or chat.
- intransitive verb To be in accord.
- intransitive verb To speak to (someone) in an exaggerated, teasing, or misleading way.
- adjective Misleading, phony, or worthless.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb US Alternative spelling of
jibe . - verb To speak using a
jibe or interconnectedjibes . - verb transitive, intransitive, US, colloquial To deceive; to be
deceptive . - verb intransitive, colloquial To
dance . - noun A dance style popular in the 1940–50s.
- noun
Swing , a style ofjazz music. - noun A
slang associated with jazz musicians;hepcat patois orhipster jargon. - noun US, colloquial
Nonsense ; transparently deceptive talk.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- verb dance to jive music; dance the jive
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Their gold, is our advanced/bronze class, i mean gold just learnt slingshot in jive and natural turn, though they do do this cool reverse natural top thing and something called a wiggle.
Archive 2008-05-01 HayleyM 2008
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I don't regret having read them (although I hate when black jive is indicated through misspellings like "sho 'nuf").
Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2006
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The only way the Rockin’ Robin jive could have been worse is if they used the Megan Corkrey version from American Idol last year.
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I remember a Hoagy Carmichael number, “Yabba Dabba Dabba Dabba Do,” Cab Calloway’s jumpin jive versions of Minnie the Moocher and Reefer Man, and Ry Cooder’s ‘Paris, Texas’ soundtrack (Bill Sr. liked this one so much he wanted it to be played at his wake, which it was).
September 2006 2006
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I remember a Hoagy Carmichael number, “Yabba Dabba Dabba Dabba Do,” Cab Calloway’s jumpin jive versions of Minnie the Moocher and Reefer Man, and Ry Cooder’s ‘Paris, Texas’ soundtrack (Bill Sr. liked this one so much he wanted it to be played at his wake, which it was).
Good Timing 2006
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(AP) - Len and Bruno have fought - again - over Bruno's having told celebrity dancer Michael Bolton on Monday that his jive was the worst he'd seen in the show's history, and then given Bolton only three points for his effort.
'Dancing with Stars' airs Boo-Gate video, gives Michael Bolton the boot Lisa de Moraes 2010
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The upbeat-ness of the jive could be a good one for Carson, especially since they've got Wham!
Dancing with the Stars Episode Recap: Monday, Oct. 17, 2011 2011
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- Michael Bolton has told Bergeron it was "inappropriate and disrespectful" of Bruno to have told him his jive was the worst he's ever seen on the competition.
'Dancing with Stars' airs Boo-Gate video, gives Michael Bolton the boot Lisa de Moraes 2010
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The jive was my stronger dance because it was fun, kind of all American, a lot of energy and more music that I tend to like.
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You know it, those so-called jive threatening letters, and you know it's a lie.
A Special Supplement: The Trial of Bobby Seale Epstein, Jason 1969
treeseed commented on the word jive
Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated among African-Americans in the early 1940s. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance.
In Ballroom dancing, Jive is one of the five International Latin dances. In competition it is danced at a speed of 44 bars per minute, although in other cases this is reduced to between 32 and 40 bars per minute.
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February 26, 2008