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jive::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | swing, swing music |
| Type of | jazz |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe |
Examples of jive
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Her jive with partner Tony Dovolani earned the lowest score of the night Monday.
From the upi.com
Because unqualified statements that don't jive with observable phenomena irk me.
From the forbes.com
Jive and Box are close partners and compete directly with the enterprise giants.
From the techcrunch.com
Len wants more wows and thinks Victor can knock him out with the jive next week.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The argument that higher taxes will stop people from investing just don't jive.
From the curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com
Combined with her score for her earlier jive number, Palin scored just 52 points.
From the bostonherald.com
If they've had enough time to rehearse, their jive could knock our bobby sox off.
From the freep.com
Jive sold13.4 million shares, up from the 11.7 million shares originally planned.
From the techcrunch.com
Jive said its initial public offering generated net proceeds of $131.4 million.
From the sacbee.com
- Dance to jive music; dance the jive
- Swing: a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- In Ballroom dancing, Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1940s. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance.
- African American Vernacular English (AAVE)u2014also called African American English (AAE); less precisely Black English, Black Vernacular, Black English Vernacular (BEV), or Black Vernacular English (BVE)u2014is a variety (dialect, ethnolect and sociolect) of American English, most commonly spoken today by urban working-class and largely bi-dialectal middle-class African Americans...
- Swing music, also known as swing jazz or simply swing, is a form of jazz music that developed in the early 1930s and became a distinctive style by 1935 in the United States. ...
- JIVE Magazine is a popular-entertainment, technology, and urban-culture magazine. It publishes features, reviews, editorials, photo galleries, and art productions on the web as well as quarterly in print. The web edition is updated frequently. JIVE Magazine launched its website in August 2000. ...
- Is a Japanese publishing company in Shinjuku, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan and was established on May 12, 2003. In 2004, the company sold its stock to Poplar Publishing and now Jive is an affiliate of that company.
- Is a slang word that refers to a glib, deceptive, nonsensical way of speaking or cool jazz: May, stop talking that jive and put on some jive so we can dance.
- A slang term with multiple connotations. Rose to common usage in the late 1930s among African Americans in reference to swing and jump blues music-"that's some great jive they're playing"-as well as the dance styles that accompanied this music. ...
