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Definition of jive in English: jivenoun dʒʌɪvdʒaɪv 1A lively style of dance popular especially in the 1940s and 1950s, performed to swing music or rock and roll. Example sentencesExamples - Now, jobs figures still aren't dancing the jive yet, but prices are spiraling higher and higher, mocking the Fed's directorate for central planning.
- She'd added a little jazz to her dance this time, some quicksteps and jives.
- The next hour is spent dancing the tango, the waltz the rumba, the cha-cha and jive.
- Gloria and her husband still enjoy a bit of a bop and a jive.
- There was also a blitz ball, a jitterbug jive dance night, a mock 1940s wedding, a remembrance service and a parade.
- Jitterbugs on August 2, 16 and 30 provides jive and boogie 1940s'-style classes for all the family.
- We used to have to get the shy boys up to dance, teach them the basic steps, waltz, jive, and Latin steps.
- In a hurly-burly whirl of tunes and groovy jives, Macbeth: The Rock Opera, which puts on its final performance at the Guild Theatre tonight, is rocking audiences, young and old.
- Co-founder Terry Monaghan described what it takes to be an ace at the jive.
- She employs around 20 teachers, teaching ballet, tap, foxtrot, waltz, tango, jive and hip hop.
- They succumbed in laughter, and eventually gave up, and danced jive to the lively music.
- Fifty members of the group turned up to show just how the jive should be danced.
- The ‘moving center’ of the dance, in jive's case the handhold, should remain firm.
- Soon, in addition to jazz, ballet and tap, children may be begging for swing, jive, foxtrot and rumba lessons.
- We first went over our existing steps in the jive.
- We practiced the cha-cha, quickstep, jive and samba, all of which are coming along quite well.
- Ratc now conducts beginners' classes to introduce you to the jive, cha cha, and salsa.
- The jive may be the latest dance craze here but it is not new.
- Live music, dance workshops and late-night jive discos are only some of the treats for enthusiasts.
- Sylvia lent him to me at the adults' Christmas party for a jive, for which I was very grateful.
- 1.1mass noun Swing music.
Example sentencesExamples - His street jive is portrayed as something materialistic and cool.
- Their movements have a likable jazzy syncopation, a bit of relaxed jive.
- The Hoochers are a unique six-piece outfit who play traditional blues with an assorted blend of funk, jazz, rock, swing, bop and jive.
- Miller's distinctive big band timbre is the sound of a generation: swing and jive, romance and sweet sentiment, people and places.
- Off ice, she listens to all kinds of music but prefers jive and hip-hop.
- As leader-trumpeter Dean Nelson states in his succinct CD notes, this is ‘a bit of jump, funk, jive, and lots of swing.’
- Sitting above an advertisement for live jive music, it seems to capture the incongruity of a violent death in this easy-going part of Glasgow.
- The concerts have featured internationally renowned bands playing music as diverse as African dance music, ska, jive, salsa and Bhangra.
- I loved the Reverend's daughter, and I loved the sweet, sweet jive of rock and roll music.
- Combining cool jazz jive with a spectacular sonic range, his work both before the mic and at the composer's table can't be matched.
- Any band that can blend an odd mixture of garage rock and southern jive automatically qualifies as good - I mean ANY band.
- It was zestful, restless, alive, jumping with jazz, sass and jive.
- 1.2mass noun A style of dance music popular in South Africa.
Example sentencesExamples - But what he found when he went to Johannesburg convinced him that an entire album could be built around township jive.
- It is going to be a musical weekend this Easter, with classical music by the orchestra and township jive at Windybrow.
- Most popular music, however, tends to come from South Africa, with its rich history of township jive.
- They speak jive, they jive to the shops and back, they live to jive but the jive is barely alive.
2mass noun A form of slang associated with black American jazz musicians. Example sentencesExamples - She has the poker jive down pat, but can't shuffle the cards worth a damn.
- It's a nice portrait of Strummer the hipster, talking his jive talk and dropping the needle on U Roy records to a worldwide audience.
- But I feel like we are all still telling the same joke about Barbara Billingsley talking jive in Airplane.
- Rarely is such a degree of lingua franca phrasing, of jazzy jive, to be found in his film reviews, and it is utterly absent from ‘Hollywood's Gift’.
- Between the intermittent razor-sharp lines, he lumbers his cast with some creaky, faintly anachronistic hipster jive dialogue.
- Scott Hudson was freaking hilarious talking in carny jive when interviewing them.
- The audience is tuned in, hip to the lingo, the jive.
- He shops for disco clothes and plaid pants, gets an Afro wig and starts talking jive.
- There are beautiful teens with bored expressions, belied by their enthusiastic jive.
- Toasting, the addition of jive talk to recorded rhythms, was one of the major offshoots of reggae - dub poetry was the other.
- Audrey II has started to talk and not just talk, but Shaft-like jive talk.
- Talking to Ike Turner, with all due respect, is kinda like listening to a jive talkin’ Grandpa Simpson.
- With a name full of jargon jive and a cast of unknown comedians and aspiring actors, this marketed as a hip urban comedy sounds like a prescription for disaster.
- 2.1North American informal Deceptive or worthless talk.
a single image says more than any amount of blather and jive Example sentencesExamples - It's often hard to distinguish between real advances, simple improvements on existing technologies, and pure marketing jive.
- Unfortunately, the good former Senator was talking jive.
- In case you're not hip to the industry jive, the usual angle is that the described band is the hottest thing the reader of the bio will ever see.
- Shows like Fraggle Rock, Howdy Doody, and that one on Fox about the jive talking cat in a leather jacket began to absorb all my free time.
- A popular jive at that time was ‘If the enemy comes, he will be drowned by the saliva of us.’
- But when the hands come up, that means shut up with mindless jive.
- She is not swayed by hype, jive, or anybody else's pressures.
- Several recent reports have shown that all their talk was jive - nearly two years into NAFTA; we've actually lost about 300,000 jobs to Mexico.
- Yes, this film where Bachchan plays a millionaire whose riches and jives are only matched by Irani, is actually a father-son tale.
- I moved from the wilds of Detroit to the country, and the only thing I don't miss about the urban experience is the ‘street jive.’
- Everyone knows him as a hard-nosed, hard-rock leader who takes no jive, stands up for what is right and goes about playing the right way.
- It's also faster, although, as Smith says, a coyote may have more ‘jukes and jives.’
- Here's what I believe: A wise, old street vendor in New York City once told me, ‘There's a little truth in all jive and a little jive in all truth.’
- ‘Push out the jive, bring in the love,’ she murmured under her breath.
- Oh man, these people are all around us making joke after joke, jive after jive, pun after pun, all in a vain attempt to elicit laughter.
- The weekend broadcasts on the Outdoor Life Network are excellent - all of the action and none of the jive.
- It's easy to see why these films were used as part of the shuck and jive of the traveling movie marketer.
verb dʒʌɪvdʒaɪv 1no object Perform the jive or a similar dance to popular music. people were jiving in the aisles Example sentencesExamples - Members can take lessons at a variety of levels at little or no cost or just hang out and jive to big band music.
- They jived to just about every chartbuster that rocks disco, pub and party circuit.
- Committee members and volunteers were letting their hair down and they boogied and jived to the rhythmic beat of local band The Jury.
- Just as the music-loving crowd, a majority of them youngsters, were getting into the groove with some static jiving, the stars arrived.
- There will be street jiving, dancing all day, marching bands, music and entertainment.
- ‘Wanna shop now,’ he says, as he jinks and jives down Oxford Street with his entourage trailing behind.
- They had a CD of Christmassy tunes set to standard dance rhythms, and jiving to Slade was most enjoyable!
- Last October, the band had the audience jiving on the dance floor and helped raise more than £2,000 for Kingston Hospital's cancer unit appeal.
- Mansi, Kashmira and Anu come into the dancing space and start jiving to the music.
- Everybody seemed to be enjoying themselves, dancing and jiving about.
- Dressed in 70's disco dancer regalia, the president jived, boogied and strutted on the computer screen with gamers choosing his next step.
- Following straight on from the Pilates class above will be an introduction to jiving and jitterbugging.
- All of a sudden we looked up and there was a big circle of Americans around us while we were jiving and they kept asking us to dance.
- There are many people who want to dance and jive to that kind of music.
- Busking and jiving - Bolton rocked away the weekend with music and dance.
- Jump and jive with R'n'B and Boogie-Woogie, a la Jools Holland.
- By midnight, everyone was on the dance floor, jiving to a number Archie knew he'd heard several times, but couldn't quite place a name on.
- Learn to jive, waltz, quick step etc. at classes to be held in Ceolaras Coleman.
- Particular thanks go to the Summerland Rockers who jived and rocked their hearts out to a very appreciative audience.
- Over 1,000 people bopped, jigged, jived and pogoed to some excellent bands.
Synonyms dance, jig, leap, jump, skip, bounce 2North American informal with object Taunt or sneer at. Willy kept jiving him until Jimmy left Example sentencesExamples - I turned the corner and, I jive you not, the first person I saw was Lamps.
- And Johnson has some advice for people aspiring to a comfortable living playing music: ‘I've set it in my mind that I will not jive anybody, and not be jived by anybody.’
Synonyms scoff at, scorn, be contemptuous of, treat with contempt, hold in contempt, disdain, mock, jeer at, gibe at, ridicule, deride, taunt, insult, make cutting remarks about, slight, affront - 2.1no object Talk nonsense.
he wasn't jiving about that bartender Example sentencesExamples - The fact that Colmes, who is demonstrably brighter than that, can sit there and shuck and jive with this fool says a lot about him.
- The very nature of God-given expression makes room for people to hum, pluck, and jive while giving concerns over society's woes.
3North American informal no object Be in accord; agree. her facial expressions did not jive with what she was saying
adjective dʒʌɪvdʒaɪv North American informal Deceitful or worthless. Example sentencesExamples - We all still have Zoidberg, but we all are jive turkeys.
- But it's still a big jive turkey in need of a valuable lesson.
Derivatives noun And it's good to go while the getting is good, but Miss Wolff has bad news for her friends and fellow country fans, rockabilly retro-ists and would-be jivers. Example sentencesExamples - In a night of unprecedented nostalgia the rockers, the jivers and the waltzers descended on the ‘ballroom of romance’.
- This so-called collection of jesters and jivers is responsible for millions of dollars of donations every year.
- He was also a hoofer of some renown; often ‘spotted as a jiver ‘he had ‘no trouble getting his dances‘.
adjective Barker's jivey style is occasionally annoying, but the unexpectedly sad ending rights what few wrongs there are. Example sentencesExamples - For The Cold Six Thousand, Ellroy reverts to the jivey slang he used in White Jazz.
- The jivey street talk, the ‘innits' and ‘wassups', dissolve into normal London accents when addressing an older white woman; the body language changes.
- Some of the partnering momentarily imparted a jazzy, jivey feel, but also a basic disconnection.
- This identity has its roots in fear rather than pride and its fruits are conformity, provincialism and a jivey new anti-intellectualism.
Origin 1920s (originally US denoting meaningless or misleading speech): of unknown origin; the later musical sense 'jazz' gave rise to 'dance performed to jazz' (1940s). This was originally used in the US usage for meaningless or misleading speech. Its origin is unknown, but may be African. It came to be used for a type of fast jazz and for the slang of African American jazz musicians, with the meaning ‘a dance performed to jazz’ found in the 1940s.
Rhymes alive, arrive, chive, Clive, connive, contrive, deprive, dive, drive, five, gyve, hive, I've, live, MI5, revive, rive, shrive, skive, strive, survive, swive, thrive Definition of jive in US English: jivenoundʒaɪvjīv 1A lively style of dance popular especially in the 1940s and 1950s, performed to swing music or rock and roll. Example sentencesExamples - She'd added a little jazz to her dance this time, some quicksteps and jives.
- We practiced the cha-cha, quickstep, jive and samba, all of which are coming along quite well.
- Soon, in addition to jazz, ballet and tap, children may be begging for swing, jive, foxtrot and rumba lessons.
- We first went over our existing steps in the jive.
- Gloria and her husband still enjoy a bit of a bop and a jive.
- They succumbed in laughter, and eventually gave up, and danced jive to the lively music.
- Live music, dance workshops and late-night jive discos are only some of the treats for enthusiasts.
- Sylvia lent him to me at the adults' Christmas party for a jive, for which I was very grateful.
- The next hour is spent dancing the tango, the waltz the rumba, the cha-cha and jive.
- Co-founder Terry Monaghan described what it takes to be an ace at the jive.
- Now, jobs figures still aren't dancing the jive yet, but prices are spiraling higher and higher, mocking the Fed's directorate for central planning.
- The jive may be the latest dance craze here but it is not new.
- Fifty members of the group turned up to show just how the jive should be danced.
- The ‘moving center’ of the dance, in jive's case the handhold, should remain firm.
- In a hurly-burly whirl of tunes and groovy jives, Macbeth: The Rock Opera, which puts on its final performance at the Guild Theatre tonight, is rocking audiences, young and old.
- Jitterbugs on August 2, 16 and 30 provides jive and boogie 1940s'-style classes for all the family.
- She employs around 20 teachers, teaching ballet, tap, foxtrot, waltz, tango, jive and hip hop.
- Ratc now conducts beginners' classes to introduce you to the jive, cha cha, and salsa.
- There was also a blitz ball, a jitterbug jive dance night, a mock 1940s wedding, a remembrance service and a parade.
- We used to have to get the shy boys up to dance, teach them the basic steps, waltz, jive, and Latin steps.
- 1.1 Swing music.
Example sentencesExamples - Their movements have a likable jazzy syncopation, a bit of relaxed jive.
- Sitting above an advertisement for live jive music, it seems to capture the incongruity of a violent death in this easy-going part of Glasgow.
- The concerts have featured internationally renowned bands playing music as diverse as African dance music, ska, jive, salsa and Bhangra.
- I loved the Reverend's daughter, and I loved the sweet, sweet jive of rock and roll music.
- Combining cool jazz jive with a spectacular sonic range, his work both before the mic and at the composer's table can't be matched.
- Off ice, she listens to all kinds of music but prefers jive and hip-hop.
- It was zestful, restless, alive, jumping with jazz, sass and jive.
- As leader-trumpeter Dean Nelson states in his succinct CD notes, this is ‘a bit of jump, funk, jive, and lots of swing.’
- The Hoochers are a unique six-piece outfit who play traditional blues with an assorted blend of funk, jazz, rock, swing, bop and jive.
- Miller's distinctive big band timbre is the sound of a generation: swing and jive, romance and sweet sentiment, people and places.
- His street jive is portrayed as something materialistic and cool.
- Any band that can blend an odd mixture of garage rock and southern jive automatically qualifies as good - I mean ANY band.
- 1.2 A style of dance music popular in South Africa.
Example sentencesExamples - But what he found when he went to Johannesburg convinced him that an entire album could be built around township jive.
- It is going to be a musical weekend this Easter, with classical music by the orchestra and township jive at Windybrow.
- They speak jive, they jive to the shops and back, they live to jive but the jive is barely alive.
- Most popular music, however, tends to come from South Africa, with its rich history of township jive.
2A form of slang associated with black American jazz musicians. Example sentencesExamples - Audrey II has started to talk and not just talk, but Shaft-like jive talk.
- The audience is tuned in, hip to the lingo, the jive.
- He shops for disco clothes and plaid pants, gets an Afro wig and starts talking jive.
- She has the poker jive down pat, but can't shuffle the cards worth a damn.
- It's a nice portrait of Strummer the hipster, talking his jive talk and dropping the needle on U Roy records to a worldwide audience.
- But I feel like we are all still telling the same joke about Barbara Billingsley talking jive in Airplane.
- Rarely is such a degree of lingua franca phrasing, of jazzy jive, to be found in his film reviews, and it is utterly absent from ‘Hollywood's Gift’.
- Toasting, the addition of jive talk to recorded rhythms, was one of the major offshoots of reggae - dub poetry was the other.
- There are beautiful teens with bored expressions, belied by their enthusiastic jive.
- Scott Hudson was freaking hilarious talking in carny jive when interviewing them.
- Between the intermittent razor-sharp lines, he lumbers his cast with some creaky, faintly anachronistic hipster jive dialogue.
- With a name full of jargon jive and a cast of unknown comedians and aspiring actors, this marketed as a hip urban comedy sounds like a prescription for disaster.
- Talking to Ike Turner, with all due respect, is kinda like listening to a jive talkin’ Grandpa Simpson.
- 2.1North American informal A thing, especially talk, that is deceptive or worthless.
a single image says more than any amount of blather and jive Example sentencesExamples - Oh man, these people are all around us making joke after joke, jive after jive, pun after pun, all in a vain attempt to elicit laughter.
- Several recent reports have shown that all their talk was jive - nearly two years into NAFTA; we've actually lost about 300,000 jobs to Mexico.
- The weekend broadcasts on the Outdoor Life Network are excellent - all of the action and none of the jive.
- But when the hands come up, that means shut up with mindless jive.
- She is not swayed by hype, jive, or anybody else's pressures.
- I moved from the wilds of Detroit to the country, and the only thing I don't miss about the urban experience is the ‘street jive.’
- In case you're not hip to the industry jive, the usual angle is that the described band is the hottest thing the reader of the bio will ever see.
- ‘Push out the jive, bring in the love,’ she murmured under her breath.
- Yes, this film where Bachchan plays a millionaire whose riches and jives are only matched by Irani, is actually a father-son tale.
- A popular jive at that time was ‘If the enemy comes, he will be drowned by the saliva of us.’
- Shows like Fraggle Rock, Howdy Doody, and that one on Fox about the jive talking cat in a leather jacket began to absorb all my free time.
- It's often hard to distinguish between real advances, simple improvements on existing technologies, and pure marketing jive.
- Here's what I believe: A wise, old street vendor in New York City once told me, ‘There's a little truth in all jive and a little jive in all truth.’
- It's easy to see why these films were used as part of the shuck and jive of the traveling movie marketer.
- Unfortunately, the good former Senator was talking jive.
- It's also faster, although, as Smith says, a coyote may have more ‘jukes and jives.’
- Everyone knows him as a hard-nosed, hard-rock leader who takes no jive, stands up for what is right and goes about playing the right way.
verbdʒaɪvjīv 1no object Perform the jive or a similar dance to popular music. people were jiving in the aisles Example sentencesExamples - They had a CD of Christmassy tunes set to standard dance rhythms, and jiving to Slade was most enjoyable!
- Following straight on from the Pilates class above will be an introduction to jiving and jitterbugging.
- Members can take lessons at a variety of levels at little or no cost or just hang out and jive to big band music.
- They jived to just about every chartbuster that rocks disco, pub and party circuit.
- Jump and jive with R'n'B and Boogie-Woogie, a la Jools Holland.
- Learn to jive, waltz, quick step etc. at classes to be held in Ceolaras Coleman.
- Just as the music-loving crowd, a majority of them youngsters, were getting into the groove with some static jiving, the stars arrived.
- Mansi, Kashmira and Anu come into the dancing space and start jiving to the music.
- Over 1,000 people bopped, jigged, jived and pogoed to some excellent bands.
- Last October, the band had the audience jiving on the dance floor and helped raise more than £2,000 for Kingston Hospital's cancer unit appeal.
- ‘Wanna shop now,’ he says, as he jinks and jives down Oxford Street with his entourage trailing behind.
- There will be street jiving, dancing all day, marching bands, music and entertainment.
- Dressed in 70's disco dancer regalia, the president jived, boogied and strutted on the computer screen with gamers choosing his next step.
- By midnight, everyone was on the dance floor, jiving to a number Archie knew he'd heard several times, but couldn't quite place a name on.
- Everybody seemed to be enjoying themselves, dancing and jiving about.
- All of a sudden we looked up and there was a big circle of Americans around us while we were jiving and they kept asking us to dance.
- Committee members and volunteers were letting their hair down and they boogied and jived to the rhythmic beat of local band The Jury.
- Particular thanks go to the Summerland Rockers who jived and rocked their hearts out to a very appreciative audience.
- Busking and jiving - Bolton rocked away the weekend with music and dance.
- There are many people who want to dance and jive to that kind of music.
Synonyms dance, jig, leap, jump, skip, bounce 2North American informal with object Taunt or sneer at. Willy kept jiving him until Jimmy left Example sentencesExamples - I turned the corner and, I jive you not, the first person I saw was Lamps.
- And Johnson has some advice for people aspiring to a comfortable living playing music: ‘I've set it in my mind that I will not jive anybody, and not be jived by anybody.’
Synonyms scoff at, scorn, be contemptuous of, treat with contempt, hold in contempt, disdain, mock, jeer at, gibe at, ridicule, deride, taunt, insult, make cutting remarks about, slight, affront - 2.1no object Talk nonsense.
he wasn't jiving about that bartender Example sentencesExamples - The very nature of God-given expression makes room for people to hum, pluck, and jive while giving concerns over society's woes.
- The fact that Colmes, who is demonstrably brighter than that, can sit there and shuck and jive with this fool says a lot about him.
3North American informal no object Be in accord; agree. her facial expressions did not jive with what she was saying
adjectivedʒaɪvjīv North American informal Deceitful or worthless. Example sentencesExamples - We all still have Zoidberg, but we all are jive turkeys.
- But it's still a big jive turkey in need of a valuable lesson.
Origin 1920s (originally US denoting meaningless or misleading speech): of unknown origin; the later musical sense ‘jazz’ gave rise to ‘dance performed to jazz’ (1940s). |