jivenoun
uk/dʒaɪv/us/dʒaɪv/jive noun (DANCE)
[ S or U ] a fast dance that was very popular with young people in the 1940s and 1950s:
My father taught me how to do the jive.
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Dance & choreography
- arabesque
- ballerina
- ballet
- ballet shoe
- ballroom dancing
- ceilidh
- corps de ballet
- dance
- dance studio
- dancer
- fandango
- flamenco
- pirouette
- pointes
- polka
- prima ballerina
- quickstep
- rumba
- strut your stuff idiom
- war dance
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jive noun (TALK)
[ U ] US slang talk that has no meaning or is dishonest:
Don't believe a word he says, it's just a bunch of (= a lot of) jive!
jiveverb
uk/dʒaɪv/us/dʒaɪv/jive verb (DANCE)
[ I ] to dance a jive
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Dance & choreography
- arabesque
- ballerina
- ballet
- ballet shoe
- ballroom dancing
- ceilidh
- corps de ballet
- dance
- dance studio
- dancer
- fandango
- flamenco
- pirouette
- pointes
- polka
- prima ballerina
- quickstep
- rumba
- strut your stuff idiom
- war dance
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jive verb (TALK)
[ T ] US slang to try to make someone believe something that is untrue:
Quit jiving me and just tell me where you were!
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Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- artifice
- bad faith
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard
- charade
- cobbler
- flimflam
- forked tongue
- half-truth
- hogwash
- humbug
- make sth up
- polygraph
- pork pie
- porky
- post-factual
- post-truth
- propaganda
- stretch the truth idiom
- venal
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