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▪ I. jive, n. slang (orig. U.S.).|dʒaɪv|
[Origin unknown.]
1. Talk or conversation; spec. talk that is misleading, untrue, empty, or pretentious; hence, anything false, worthless, or unpleasant; vaguely, ‘stuff’; = jazz n. 3 a.
1928R. Fisher Walls of Jericho 301 Jive, pursuit in love or any device thereof. Usually flattery with intent to win. 1929T. Gordon Born to Be 236 Jive, a misleading remark. 1932Muse & Arlen Way down South 50 Thus the enamoured customer completed his meal, without ever having taken his eyes off that tantalizing brown, with her suave Birmingham jive. 1935Swing Music Autumn 55/2 Maybe you think that that is all jive. You are wrong if you do. It is the way I felt about these new records. 1946Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues iii. 37, I used to hear a lot of medical jive. Ibid. 375 Jive n., confusing doubletalk, pretentious conversation, anything false or phony. Jive that makes it drip, clouds that produce rain. 1954L. Armstrong Satchmo x. 150 There was lots of just plain common shooting and cutting. But..that jive didn't faze me at all. Ibid. xii. 193, I bought a lot of cheap jive at the five and ten cents store to give to the kids. 1956M. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) v. 50 The attitude of several modern jazzmen, born and bred in the South, is striking: ‘This hoodoo jive is nowhere,’ they say, ‘but man, watch out!’ 1960in P. Oliver Blues fell this Morning vii. 197 I'm evil and mean and funny, so don't come back with that line of jive. 1972M. J. Bosse Incident at Naha iii. 152 Maybe some of his Christian sentiments sound corny today, but..he had cut through a lot of the jive of his own time, and he had, like, the balls to fight injustice. 1973Black World Oct. 36/2 Everything that we do must be aimed toward the total liberation, unification and empowerment of Afrika... Anything short of that is jive.
2. Jazz, esp. a type of fast, lively jazz; ‘swing’.
1928(title of gramophone record by Cow Cow Davenport) State Street Jive. 1937New Yorker 17 Apr. 31/3 The music of hot bands..is referred to as swing or jive, of which, in turn, there are several kinds. 1939San Francisco News Let. 1 Sept. 12/2 Fats Waller..is the King of Jive and gets off some fine stuff. 1946N. & Q. 13 July 20/1 Mr. Mitchell Parish, the American song-writer,..told me that he uses jive to describe syncopated music played noisily, and (usually) fast, with great emphasis on rhythm. 1959‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene i. 12 In Sophiatown and the rest of the South African ghettoes the ‘jive bands’ play what is patently jazz. 1960Down Beat 9 June 15 Regarding the word jive, Wilson said, it is nothing more than an obsolete slang term for jazz.
b. Lively and uninhibited dancing to dance-music or jazz; spec. ‘jitterbugging’.
1943Dancing Times Dec. 117/1 The rhythm of the Jive is not an entirely new one. 1957C. MacInnes City of Spades i. iv. 24 I'll teach you..bop steps, and jive, and all. 1958Listener 20 Nov. 848/1 Jive and tribal dancing. 1969H. Horwood Newfoundland x. 69 The jive..is still the universal dance of..outport youngsters.
3. A variety of American English associated with the Harlem area of New York; slang used by American Blacks, or by jazz musicians and their followers. Also attrib., as jive talk.
1938C. Calloway Hi De Ho 16 Jive. 1. Harlemese speech or lingo. 2. To kid along, to blarney, to give a girl a line. 1943Time 26 July 56/2 A jive-talk glossary that is strictly Dracula has been put out by Parents' Institute. 1944D. Burley (title) Original handbook of Harlem jive. 1944E. Conrad in Ibid. 5 Jive is one more contribution of Negro America to the United States. Ibid. 6 Jive talk may have been originally a kind of ‘Pig Latin’ that the slaves talked with each other, a code—when they were in the presence of whites. 1960Time & Tide 24 Dec. 1599/2 Jive-talk is nothing new. It goes back at least to the thirties when for the first time a brand of jazz, swing, grew to be a cult. Jive was originally the patois of Harlem, not jazz musicians' slang; but with time the distinction was lost. 1965Economist 4 Sept. 888/2 Some common American jive⁓words (nappy, funky) are left out [of the Penguin English Dictionary]. 1971Black World June 92/2 All the rest of that jive talk about white liberals and Rhett Butler is part of another conversation, Sam. 1971Melody Maker 13 Nov. 31/1 That is if you forget the usual jive phrases that whittle their way into his conversation. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 1 June 604/4 A narrative tone which frequently coincides with the fast, obscene jive-talk of his characters.
4. Marijuana, or a cigarette containing it.
1938Call-Bulletin (San Francisco) 19 Mar., The cigarettes are variously called sticks, reefers, tea gyves, Mary Anns and goofy butts. 1952N.Y. Times 29 Apr. 25 So Diane smoked jive, pod, and tea. 1955U.S. Senate Hearings (1956) viii. 4168 ‘Sticks’, ‘reefers’, ‘jive sticks’. 1963‘D. Rutherford’ Creeping Flesh ii. 124 ‘Jive’ originally meant marijuana. 1972Lancet 16 Sept. 565/1 She was convinced that only in the institution could she ‘make it without jive’, for she invariably used heroin whenever she was sent home.
▪ II. jive, v. slang (orig. U.S.).|dʒaɪv|
Also gieve.
[Cf. prec.]
1. a. trans. To mislead, to deceive, to ‘kid’; to taunt or sneer at. Also intr., to talk jive, to talk nonsense, to act foolishly.
1928L. Armstrong (title of gramophone record) Don't jive me. 1929W. Thurman Blacker the Berry 128 But I jived her along, so she ditched him, and gave me her address. 1934Amer. Speech IX. 26/2 Gieve.., to mislead with words; to take into one's confidence. Ibid. 27/1 Jive, see gieve. 1938Ibid. XIII. 317/1 To jive around,..‘to fool around’. 1939J. Dollard in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 281/2 Willy kept ‘jiving’ him until Jimmy finally left. 1944D. Burley Orig. Handbk. Harlem Jive 71 Jive is a distortion of that staid, old respectable English word ‘jibe’... In the sense in which it came into use among Negroes in Chicago about the year 1921, it meant to taunt, to scoff, to sneer. Ibid., A highly effective manner of talking about each other's ancestors and hereditary traits..called ‘Jiving’ someone. 1946Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues vi. 70 Monkey wasn't jiving about that bartender. 1950A. Lomax Mr. Jelly Roll (1952) iv. 170, I..jived the expressman to hank my trunks to the station by telling him my money was uptown. 1969J. McPherson in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 162, I don't need no money. Nobody's jiving me. I'm jiving them. You know I can still pull in a hundred in tips in one trip [as a waiter on a train]. 1973Black World Mar. 57 Lawd, don't jive Miz Jackson,..Ride on King Jesus!
b. intr. To make sense; to fit in. U.S. Cf. jibe v.
1943Amer. Speech XVIII. 153/2 Doesn't jive, doesn't make sense. 1955W. Gaddis Recognitions ii. i. 308 His analyst says he's in love with her for all the neurotic reasons in the book. It don't jive, man. 1973To our Returned Prisoners of War (Office of U.S. Secretary of Defense) 7 Jive, verb meaning fit in, go with, to make sense.
2. intr.
a. To play ‘jive’ (jive n. 2 a).
c1938N. E. Williams His Hi De Highness of Ho De Ho 35/2 ‘Jiving’, meaning to improvise. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §579/9 Play ‘hot jazz’; ‘swing’,..jive. 1947Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) ii. 44 The juke-box jives rejoicing madly.
b. To dance the ‘jive’ (jive n. 2 b).
1939San Francisco News Let. 1 Sept. 12/2 If you should dance to the rhythms of either gentleman you will be jiving. 1957Observer 13 Oct. 3/4 Young people from the East End and the West End came there [the Humphrey Lyttelton Club] to jive or listen. 1958New Statesman 4 Jan. 10/2 A couple began a little hesitantly to jive.
Hence ˈjiver, one who jives; ˈjiving vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1936N.Y. World-Telegram 6 Oct. 16/1 High jiving—tall, if you know what I mean, talk. c1938[see 2 above]. 1939Blind Boy Fuller (song title) Jivin' Big Bill Blues. 1939San Francisco Examiner 18 Aug. 3 (heading) Jiving deluxe. 1943N.Y. Times 9 May ii. 5/7 I'm a jivin jitter⁓bug. 1943Gramophone Aug. 47/2 Lawd, don't cut out ‘Jazz’! I'll write you as many letters as Robert Mackenzie likes, but..don't forget the ‘jiver’, sir, don't forget the ‘jiver’! 1944S. J. Perelman Crazy like Fox (1945) 163 A jiving, hot-hosing jitterbug. 1947M. H. Boulware Jive & Slang of Students in Negro Colleges, Jiver,..a flatterer. 1951‘A. Garve’ Murder in Moscow iii. 46 Her daughter..had won a prize for jiving at some South London palais. 1959Spectator 12 June 856/1 One..finds the jazz virtuoso Stephane Grapelly performing to an admiring crowd of jivers. 1973Black World Mar. 85 Jiving, bopping, napping, signifying, sounding—all modes of Afro-American expression—seek to affirm the vitality of the Black American experience. Ibid. May 84/1 He comes down hard on white racists, but he also attacks Black ‘jivers’ who seek to exploit their brethren under the guise of Blackness.
▪ III. jive, a. U.S. slang.|dʒaɪv|
[f. the n.]
Used, chiefly by American Blacks, in the primary sense ‘not acting correctly’ but with a wide range of connotations (‘pretentious’, ‘deceitful’, etc.).
[1959Esquire Nov. 70J Jive, to fool, to kid. The adjective is bogus.] 1971E. E. Landy Underground Dict. 112 Jive,..not acting right; doing something wrong—e.g. You never showed up. You're a jive dude. 1973E. Bullins Theme is Blackness 131 Kiss ma ass ya jive mathafukker! 1973Black World June 61 Huh? Awh, Sistuh, u sho is jive. Ibid. 79/1 The hero..is ‘hip’, but not ‘jive’. Ibid. Sept. 53, I been confused, fucked up, scared, phony And jive To a whole/lot of people.
▪ IV. jive
erron. spelling of gyve v. and n.
In mod. editions of some works. |