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  • verb Present participle of jive.

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Examples

  • Eric- The Wyeth painting is interesting, at first I didn't feel like the patch of light on the door and the patch of light on the table were "jiving", but it dawned on me that the door is at a different angle to the light source and therefore gets a different treatment.

    Motivated Light James Gurney 2009

  • Back when Safeway was shucking and jiving the burger meat, I'd grab a big roast, ring for the butcher who thought he was safe behind the glass and say "Grind it medium, please", to which he would make retorts like "we have ground beef in the case out there, lady."

    the big chapala beef beef 2009

  • She bombed last week jiving in a monkey suit, but Bristol Palin mounted a comeback Monday night with a tango that judge Carrie Ann Inaba ...

    Bristol Palin Redeems Herself On 'Dancing With The Stars' (VIDEO) Katy Hall 2010

  • "Codename Cornbread" and his shucking and jiving behavior reminiscent of days gratefully gone by.

    Lori Bryant Woolridge: How Herman Cain Offended Married Women Lori Bryant Woolridge 2011

  • That's never more true than when he meets one of his final parole candidates: Gerald "Stone" Creeson (Edward Norton), a slippery corn-rowed type who seems to be jiving right from the start.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Stone Marshall Fine 2010

  • Back when Safeway was shucking and jiving the burger meat, I'd grab a big roast, ring for the butcher who thought he was safe behind the glass and say "Grind it medium, please", to which he would make retorts like "we have ground beef in the case out there, lady."

    the big chapala beef beef 2009

  • Back when Safeway was shucking and jiving the burger meat, I'd grab a big roast, ring for the butcher who thought he was safe behind the glass and say "Grind it medium, please", to which he would make retorts like "we have ground beef in the case out there, lady."

    the big chapala beef beef 2009

  • She bombed last week jiving in a monkey suit, but Bristol Palin mounted a comeback Monday night with a tango that judge Carrie Ann Inaba described as "ridiculously amazing."

    Bristol Palin Redeems Herself On 'Dancing With The Stars' (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Back when Safeway was shucking and jiving the burger meat, I'd grab a big roast, ring for the butcher who thought he was safe behind the glass and say "Grind it medium, please", to which he would make retorts like "we have ground beef in the case out there, lady."

    the big chapala beef beef 2009

  • She bombed last week jiving in a monkey suit, but Bristol Palin mounted a comeback Monday night with a tango that judge Carrie Ann Inaba described as "ridiculously amazing."

    Bristol Palin Redeems Herself On 'Dancing With The Stars' (VIDEO) Katy Hall 2010

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