- swing music or early jazz.
- the jargon associated with swing music and early jazz.
- deceptive, exaggerated, or meaningless talk: Don't give me any of that jive!
- to play jive.
- to dance to jive; jitterbug.
- to engage in kidding, teasing, or exaggeration.
- to tease; fool; kid: Stop jiving me!
- insincere, pretentious, or deceptive.
- a style of lively and jerky dance performed to jazz and, later, to rock and roll, popular esp in the 1940s and 1950s
- a variety of American slang spoken chiefly by Black people, esp jazz musicians
- deliberately misleading or deceptive talk
- (as modifier)
- to dance the jive
- to mislead; tell lies (to)
