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ALL meanings of jive

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  • noun jive 1940s fast dance style 1
  • noun jive 1940s urban slang 1
  • intransitive verb jive dance the jive 1
  • transitive verb jive tease, talk nonsense to 1
  • noun jive swing music or early jazz. 1
  • noun jive the jargon associated with swing music and early jazz. 1
  • noun jive Slang. deceptive, exaggerated, or meaningless talk: Don't give me any of that jive! 1
  • verb without object jive to play jive. 1
  • verb without object jive to dance to jive; jitterbug. 1
  • verb without object jive Slang. to engage in kidding, teasing, or exaggeration. 1
  • verb with object jive Slang. to tease; fool; kid: Stop jiving me! 1
  • adjective jive Slang. insincere, pretentious, or deceptive. 1
  • noun jive A lively style of dance popular especially in the 1940s and 1950s, performed to swing music or rock and roll. 1
  • noun jive A dance style popular in the 1940–50s. 0
  • noun jive Swing, a style of jazz music. 0
  • noun jive A slang associated with jazz musicians; hepcat patois or hipster jargon. 0
  • noun jive (Colloquial) (US) Nonsense; transparently deceptive talk. 0
  • noun jive (US, colloquial, often pejorative) African American Vernacular English. 0
  • verb jive (Transitive Verb) VI (US, colloquial) To deceive; to be deceptive. 0
  • verb jive (Intransitive Verb) COL To dance. 0
  • verb jive (US) Alternative spelling of jibe. 0
  • verb jive If you jive, you dance energetically, especially to rock and roll or swing music. 0
  • uncountable noun jive Jive is rock and roll or swing music that you jive to. 0
  • uncountable noun jive Jive or jive talk is a kind of informal language used by some African Americans. 0
  • noun jive a style of lively and jerky dance performed to jazz and, later, to rock and roll, popular esp in the 1940s and 1950s 0
  • noun jive a variety of American slang spoken chiefly by Black people, esp jazz musicians 0
  • noun jive deliberately misleading or deceptive talk 0
  • noun jive (as modifier) 0
  • verb jive to dance the jive 0
  • verb jive to mislead; tell lies (to) 0
  • verb transitive jive to speak (to) in a way that is exaggerated, insincere, flippant, etc., esp. in trying to fool or mislead 0
  • noun jive talk used in jiving someone 0
  • noun jive jazzor swing (c. 1930-45) 0
  • adjective jive insincere, misleading, fake, fraudulent, etc. 0
  • intransitive verb jive jibe2 (sense 3) 0
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