jive
noun/dʒaɪv/
/dʒaɪv/
- [uncountable, singular] a fast dance to music with a strong beat, especially popular in the 1950s
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- [uncountable] (North American English, old-fashioned, informal) ideas, statements or beliefs that you think are silly or not true synonym nonsense
- to talk jive
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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