Jive
- Jive is Swing music, or a type of quick-paced and energetic jazz. Cow Cow Davenport recorded a song called State Street Jive in 1928. Mitchell Parish defined it as "syncopated music played noisily, and (usually) fast, with great emphasis on rhythm."
- Jive Records is a record label
- Jive is a dance.
- See also Modern Jive dance.
- Cab Calloway's Hepster's Dictionary defined jive as
- (1) (n) Harlemese speech or lingo; also stuff and things. Ex. "did you bring the jive [i.e. liquor]?"
- (2) (v) to kid along, to blarney, to give a girl a line. Ex. "He can jive his way into any chick's heart".
- Jive is a slang term which refers to ebonics in a general sense. See also African American Vernacular English.
- Jive (noun) can also mean talking in a misleading, false, worthless, or glib way, as in You're jivin' me ..., Don't give me none of that jive talk!, or That's close enough for jive, a jive turkey is someone behaving in a glib and disingenuous fashion
- Jive (verb) is an ebonics slang term meaning "jibe", "mix with" or "reconcile well with;" i.e. aggreeability or harmonization; "That don't particularly jive with my understanding of the situation."
- JIVE Magazine is a music magazine
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