jive
verb/dʒaɪv/
/dʒaɪv/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they jive | /dʒaɪv/ /dʒaɪv/ |
| he / she / it jives | /dʒaɪvz/ /dʒaɪvz/ |
| past simple jived | /dʒaɪvd/ /dʒaɪvd/ |
| past participle jived | /dʒaɪvd/ /dʒaɪvd/ |
| -ing form jiving | /ˈdʒaɪvɪŋ/ /ˈdʒaɪvɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] to dance to jazz or rock and roll music
- [intransitive, transitive] jive (somebody) (North American English, old-fashioned, informal) to try to make somebody believe something that is not true synonym kid
Word Origin1920s (originally US denoting meaningless or misleading speech): of unknown origin; the later musical sense ‘jazz’ gave rise to ‘dance performed to jazz’ (1940s).
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