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Jazzman's jargon
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jive
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Word definitions for jive in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Definitely more of a passacaglia than a jive . ▪ He even has a hand jive in there too. ▪ He says a lot of corny retro jive that used to go over big in the 1970s. ▪ These people, some people you see, talk jive into good jobs. ...
Usage examples of jive.
His middle finger pointed right at Smoothie, making a silent accusation while Hand Jive moaned deep in his chest.
I only had to look like someone who might be jiving with this freak in a nonmandatory way.
It was time of conservatives and jives, when what you wore also stated what you stood for.
A Shadow station broadcasted the program, which consisted of popular music of the jive variety.
Instead she had command of jive talk, adolescent slang, and high school double-talk which would be meaningless to any but another American bobbysoxer.
Instead she had command of jive talk, adoléscent slang, and high school double-talk which would be meaningless to any but another American bobbysoxer.
A milling sea of multicolored humanity filled it to overflowing as always, shucking and jiving and hustling and rapping and breakdancing and just hanging out.
He Jives nowadays in Melbourne, Australia, and notes that Dreaming Down-Under, the award-winning anthology of Australian M and fantasy he coedited with his wife Janeen Webb, has recently been published in the US.
Watching the tiny scion of Ideal Dry Cleaners jiving along in front of me, the gold earring back in his ear, his hands and feet rolling to the Marley, made me mimic him, and in my jiving I realized how dull and dead I had become in these months, renouncing dancing, denying mere life and mere woods and mountains pulsing with streams and rivulets.
Give one of them a few minutes, and they’ll bend your ear about the Superior philosophy of extropic evolution and all that jive.
I knew it wasn't the way to go about it but I wasn't in the mood for jive.
Music will give place to jiving: which as far as I can make out means holding a 'jam session' round a piano (an instrument properly intended to produce the sounds devised by, say, Chopin) and hitting it so hard that it breaks.
If Gadgets had been there, they would have jived a duet of "Be prepared!
Gadgets jived through the electronic encoding circuits of the NSA equipment.
She was over at the bar where several black guys were sitting with their hats on, glancing at themselves in the bar mirror as they talked and jived around.