Jive

Quick meaning: Jive is a verb meaning (transitive, intransitive, US, colloquial) To deceive; to be deceptive.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Word Forms

• jives
• jiving
• jived

Synonyms for jive

Depending on context, synonyms include flummery, bullshit, swing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include swing, try, run, walk, jazz, seventy.

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