1928 R. Fisher Walls of Jericho 301 Jive, pursuit in love or any device thereof. Usually flattery with intent to win.

1929 T. Gordon Born to Be 236 Jive, a misleading remark.

1932 C. Muse & D. 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.

1935 Swing 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.

1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues iii. 37 I used to hear a lot of medical jive.

1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues iii. 375 Jive n., confusing doubletalk, pretentious conversation, anything false or phony. Jive that makes it drip, clouds that produce rain.

1954 L. Armstrong Satchmo x. 150 There was lots of just plain common shooting and cutting. But..that jive didn't faze me at all.

1954 L. Armstrong Satchmo xii. 193 I bought a lot of cheap jive at the five and ten cents store to give to the kids.

1956 M. 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!’

1960 in 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.

1972 M. 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.

1973 Black 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.

1938 C. Calloway Hi De Ho 16 Jive. 1. Harlemese speech or lingo. 2. To kid along, to blarney, to give a girl a line.

1943 Time 26 July 56/2 A jive-talk glossary that is strictly Dracula has been put out by Parents' Institute.

1944 D. Burley (title) Original handbook of Harlem jive.

1944 E. Conrad in D. Burley Orig. Handbk. Harlem Jive 5 Jive is one more contribution of Negro America to the United States.

1944 E. Conrad in D. Burley Orig. Handbk. Harlem Jive 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.

1960 Time & 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.

1965 Economist 4 Sept. 888/2 Some common American jive~words (nappy, funky) are left out [of the Penguin English Dictionary].

1971 Black World June 92/2 All the rest of that jive talk about white liberals and Rhett Butler is part of another conversation, Sam.

1971 Melody Maker 13 Nov. 31/1 That is if you forget the usual jive phrases that whittle their way into his conversation.

1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 June 604/4 A narrative tone which frequently coincides with the fast, obscene jive-talk of his characters.

1938 San Francisco Call-Bull. 19 Mar. The cigarettes are variously called sticks, reefers, tea gyves, Mary Anns and goofy butts.

1952 N.Y. Times 29 Apr. 25 So Diane smoked jive, pod, and tea.

1955 U.S. Senate Hearings (1956) viii. 4168 ‘Sticks’, ‘reefers’, ‘jive sticks’.

1963 ‘D. Rutherford’ Creeping Flesh ii. 124 ‘Jive’ originally meant marijuana.

1972 Lancet 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.

1959 Esquire Nov. 70J Jive, to fool, to kid. The adjective is bogus.]

1971 E. E. Landy Underground Dict. 112 Jive,..not acting right; doing something wrong—e.g. You never showed up. You're a jive dude.

1973 E. Bullins Theme is Blackness 131 Kiss ma ass ya jive mathafukker!

1973 Black World June 61 Huh? Awh, Sistuh, u sho is jive.

1973 Black World June 79/1 The hero..is ‘hip’, but not ‘jive’.

1973 Black World Sept. 53 I been confused, fucked up, scared, phony And jive To a whole/lot of people.

1943 Gramophone 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’!

1947 M. H. Boulware Jive & Slang of Students in Negro Colleges Jiver,..a flatterer.

1959 Spectator 12 June 856/1 One..finds the jazz virtuoso Stephane Grapelly performing to an admiring crowd of jivers.

1973 Black World 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.

1936 N.Y. World-Telegram 6 Oct. 16/1 High jiving—tall, if you know what I mean, talk.

1939 ‘Blind Boy Fuller’ (title of song) Jivin' Big Bill Blues.

1939 San Francisco Examiner 18 Aug. 3 (heading) Jiving deluxe.

1943 N.Y. Times 9 May ii. 5/7 I'm a jivin jitter~bug.

1944 S. J. Perelman Crazy like Fox (1945) 163 A jiving, hot-hosing jitterbug.

1951 ‘A. Garve’ Murder in Moscow iii. 46 Her daughter..had won a prize for jiving at some South London palais.

1973 Black World Mar. 85 Jiving, bopping, napping, signifying, sounding—all modes of Afro-American expression—seek to affirm the vitality of the Black American experience.