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Definitions for Jive

[1] swing music or early jazz.
[2] the jargon associated with swing music and early jazz.
[3] Slang . deceptive, exaggerated, or meaningless talk: Don't give me any of that jive!
[4] to play jive.
[5] to dance to jive; jitterbug.
[6] Slang . to engage in kidding, teasing, or exaggeration.
[7] Slang . to tease; fool; kid: Stop jiving me!
[8] Slang . insincere, pretentious, or deceptive.
[9] a style of lively and jerky dance performed to jazz and, later, to rock and roll, popular esp in the 1940s and 1950s
[10] Also called: jive talk a variety of American slang spoken chiefly by Black people, esp jazz musicians
[11] slang , mainly US deliberately misleading or deceptive talk (as modifier ) jive talk
[12] (intr) to dance the jive
[13] slang , mainly US to mislead; tell lies (to)

Words related to Jive

conversational, vernacular, madness, silliness, babble, joke, bunk, folly, stupidity, foolishness, drivel, rubbish, baloney, gibberish, trash, absurdity, spiel, monologue, chatter, farce

Words nearby Jive

jittery, jiujitsu, jiulong, jiva, jivaro, jive, jivey, jivy, jixi, jiz, jizyah

Origin of Jive

1920–25; origin obscure; alleged to be an alteration of gibe1, though the shift in sense and phonetic change are unexplained

Words that may be confused with Jive

gibe, gybe, jib, jibe, jive

Other words from Jive

jiv·er , noun

Word origin for Jive

C20: of unknown origin

Synonyms for Jive

conversational, vernacular, chatty, common, demotic, dialectal, everyday, idiomatic, popular, street