jive
About 0.27 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To deceive; to be deceptive.
Don’t try to jive me! I know where you were last night!
- verb To dance, originally to jive or swing music; later, to jazz, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, disco, etc.
- verb To speak in jive (jazz or hipster slang).
- noun A dance style popular in the 1940–50s.
- noun Swing, a style of jazz music.
- noun A slang associated with jazz musicians; hepcat patois or hipster jargon.
- noun Synonym of bullshit: patent nonsense, transparently deceptive talk.
Don’t give me that jive. I know where you were last night.
- noun African-American Vernacular English.
Similar words
swing swing music try run walk jazz seventy forty juke juggle
Often followed by
years and talk with hundred in to records thousand
Word family
jived jives jivey jivier jiviest jiving
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