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单词 jive
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Origin of jive

First recorded in 1925–30; origin obscure; alleged to be an alteration of gibe1, though the shift in sense and phonetic change are unexplained

OTHER WORDS FROM jive

jiver, noun

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH jive

jibe, jive

Words nearby jive

jitterbug, jittery, jiujitsu, jiva, Jívaro, jive, jivey, jivy, Jixi, jiz, jizyah
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Example sentences from the Web for jive

  • More weakly fused participants were, perhaps unsurprisingly, much less biased, deleting about 0 to 9 percent of comments that didn’t jive with their views.

    The Anonymous Culture Cops of the Internet - Facts So Romantic|Jesse Singal|August 12, 2020|Nautilus
  • Instead, she wanted to listen to her music and go disco-ing or to some jive concert.

    "Spiteful" Diana Had "No Feeling For Her Husband or His Family" Says Lady Pamela Hicks|Tom Sykes|September 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
  • Then, when Ali's jive began to bend toward something like truth, Lipsyte snatched those thoughts for his column.

    On the Peninsula|Bryan Curtis|April 25, 2011|DAILY BEAST

British Dictionary definitions for jive

jive
/ (dʒaɪv) /

noun

a style of lively and jerky dance performed to jazz and, later, to rock and roll, popular esp in the 1940s and 1950s
Also called: jive talk a variety of American slang spoken chiefly by Black people, esp jazz musicians
  1. slang, mainly US deliberately misleading or deceptive talk
  2. (as modifier)jive talk

verb

(intr) to dance the jive
slang, mainly US to mislead; tell lies (to)

Derived forms of jive

jiver, noun

Word Origin for jive

C20: of unknown origin
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