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   jive

   /dʒʌɪv/

   noun

   • 1. a lively style of dance popular especially in the 1940s and 1950s, performed to swing music or rock and roll.
   • ▪ swing music.
   • ▪ a style of dance music popular in South Africa: "township jive"
   • 2. a form of slang associated with black American jazz musicians.
   • ▪ deceptive or worthless talk: informal North American "a single image says more than any amount of blather and jive"

   verb

   • 1. perform the jive or a similar dance to popular music: "people were jiving in the aisles"
   • 2. taunt or sneer at: informal North American "Willy kept jiving him until Jimmy left"
   • ▪ talk nonsense: "he wasn't jiving about that bartender"
   • 3. be in accord; agree: informal North American "her facial expressions did not jive with what she was saying"

   adjective

   • 1. deceitful or worthless. informal North American

   Word Origin 1920s (originally US denoting meaningless or misleading speech): of unknown origin; the later musical sense ‘jazz’ gave rise to ‘dance performed to jazz’ (1940s).

   Derivatives

   • 1. jiver noun
   • 2. jivey adjective

   Scrabble Points: 14

   • J

     8

   • I

     1

   • V

     4

   • E

     1

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