jive

To deceive; to be deceptive.UScolloquialintransitive

• Don’t try to jive me! I know where you were last night!

To dance, originally to jive or swing music; later, to jazz, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, disco, etc.colloquialintransitive

• You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life; ooh, see that girl, watch that scene, diggin' the dancing queen!
• "Can you flamenco?" "If I have to. How about you?" "Love, I can barely waltz. Jive a bit if I'm pissed enough."

To speak in jive (jazz or hipster slang).intransitive

A dance style popular in the 1940–50s.uncountable

Swing, a style of jazz music.uncountable

A slang associated with jazz musicians; hepcat patois or hipster jargon.uncountable

• Then the loud sound did seem to fade / Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase / That weren't no DJ, that was hazy cosmic jive

Synonym of bullshit: patent nonsense, transparently deceptive talk.UScolloquialcountable

• Don’t give me that jive. I know where you were last night.

African-American Vernacular English.UScolloquialcountable

• Although speaking Western Japanese to your friends in Ōsaka, Kyōto, or Kōbe will allow you to get closer to them, speaking Western Japanese in Tōkyō might seem as outlandish as hearing a Japanese exchange student back home speaking jive or
• "Oh come on," she said. "I heard you talking jive the other day when you were playing with your dolls. And back in February, when you recited that poem by, by—what was the poet's name? "Langston Hughes?" "Right, Langston Hughes," Kanta said

Marijuanacountabledatedslang

To jibe: to accord, to agree.US