Meaning

(transitive, intransitive, US, colloquial) To deceive; to be deceptive..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, intransitive, US, colloquial) To deceive; to be deceptive.
2. (intransitive, colloquial) To dance, originally to jive or swing music; later, to jazz, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, disco, etc.
3. (uncountable) A dance style popular in the 1940–50s.
4. (uncountable) Swing, a style of jazz music.
5. (uncountable) A slang associated with jazz musicians; hepcat patois or hipster jargon.
6. (US, colloquial) Synonym of bullshit: patent nonsense, transparently deceptive talk.
7. (US, colloquial, often derogatory) African-American Vernacular English.
8. (US) To jibe: to accord, to agree.

Example Sentences

Don’t try to jive me! I know where you were last night!

It's the year when all of the white politicians will be back in the so-called Negro community jiving you and me for some votes.

You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life; ooh, see that girl, watch that scene, diggin' the dancing queen!

"Can you flamenco?" "If I have to. How about you?" "Love, I can barely waltz. Jive a bit if I'm pissed enough."

When it was time for stage games, I found myself jiving to Chinese orchestra and *Nsync tunes with my colleague’s sister — one of my “supporters”.

Then the loud sound did seem to fade / Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase / That weren't no DJ, that was hazy cosmic jive

Don’t give me that jive. I know where you were last night.

Although speaking Western Japanese to your friends in Ōsaka, Kyōto, or Kōbe will allow you to get closer to them, speaking Western Japanese in Tōkyō might seem as outlandish as hearing a Japanese exchange student back home speaking jive or cockney.

Word Forms

• jives
• jiving
• jived

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When Should You Use Jive?

Use jive when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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