Usually means: Swinging, lively jazz or dance.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. jive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. jive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jive, jive: Wordnik
  7. jive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. jive: Wiktionary
  9. jive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. jive: Dictionary.com
  13. jive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. jive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Jive (dance), Jive (disambiguation), Jive (publisher), Jive (software), Jive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. jive: Rhymezone
  17. Jive (m), jive, jive, jive (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. JIVE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. jive: Free Dictionary
  20. jive: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. jive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. jive: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. jive: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Jazz Humor (No longer online)
  3. Dance (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jive (genre), jive: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. JiVE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. jive, jive, jive, jive, jive: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Jive: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Jive, the jive: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, US, colloquial) To deceive; to be deceptive.
verb:  (intransitive, colloquial) To dance, originally to jive or swing music; later, to jazz, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, disco, etc.
noun:  (uncountable) A dance style popular in the 1940–50s.
noun:  (uncountable) Swing, a style of jazz music.
noun:  (uncountable) A slang associated with jazz musicians; hepcat patois or hipster jargon.
noun:  (US, colloquial) Synonym of bullshit: patent nonsense, transparently deceptive talk.
noun:  (US, colloquial, often derogatory) African-American Vernacular English.
verb:  (US) To jibe, in the sense of to accord, to agree

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