jive
To deceive; to be deceptiveTo deceive; to be deceptive.
» Funky music, fellas! Let's jive!
althead · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
4 senses(US, colloquial, intransitive, transitive)To deceive; to be deceptive.
Don’t try to jive me! I know where you were last night!
bequatschen, vormachen, Quatsch erzählen
(colloquial, intransitive)To dance, originally to jive or swing music; later, to jazz, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, disco, etc.
swingen
dance to jive music; dance the jive
(intransitive)To speak in jive (jazz or hipster slang).
(US)To jibe: to accord, to agree.
Examples
1 sentencesFunky music, fellas! Let's jive!
Translations
4 languagesOrigin
Unknown. Slang attested in African-American and rural American culture. Frequently used toUnknown. Slang attested in African-American and rural American culture. Frequently used to imply lying, verbal deception or trickery. Has a possible historical antecedent in gyve (“shackle”). Alternatively, of African origin, compare Wolof jev, jeu (“to talk about someone absent, especially in a disparaging manner”).
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Forms
jives, jiving, jived, jivedLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.