Word Finder - jive

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A dance style popular in the 1940–50s.

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Swing, a style of jazz music.

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

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Nonsense; transparently deceptive talk.

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

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African-American Vernacular English.

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To deceive; to be deceptive.

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

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To dance.

How do such predictions jive with the data on the ancient clay tablets?

There are other categories such as "Historical Dance" (including waltz and polka), "Nightclub" (hustle, jive, etc.) and others.

In the 1880s, African-Americans in the South would hold Jive competitions, and the first prize was usually a cake.

Playing a high energy mix of African township jive, reggae, salsa, latin and funk.

Some classic swing tracks such as Jumping Jive and Is you is?

We concentrate on ballroom and latin american dance styles, but also do some salsa, argentine tango, modern jive and much more!

Today, after much research, development and international agreement, there are five recognized "Latin" dances - the Samba, Rumba, and Cha Cha (from Latin America), the Paso Doble (from Europe), and the Jive (from North America).

The Bee Gees themselves make the largest contribution with six tracks of their own, although two tracks, Jive Talkin' and You Should Be Dancing, were hits that were previous releases from other Bee Gees albums.

Eric and Brenda they did contrive, to do their exercise with the hand jive.

The band steamed through their opening couple of rock'n'rollers, but soon found there was a strong swing jive contingent in.

The word "Jive" is an African slang term meaning "exaggerations," and this is shown in the enthusiastic dance steps and bravado that accompany good Jive performances.

Later in her teen years Britney recorded her first demo, which got her signed by Jive Records.

Levy plays an uptight white guy who falls for Charlene, and then starts talking jive, cringe.

Modern jive close by You can dance modern jive at other venues close by.

Or that in dancing tonight we started learning the jive!

Others developed a more up-tempo dance music - the " jumping jive " - adding electric instruments and accentuating the rhythms.

For further information about the JIVE project see the jive project see the JIVE web site.

Dan's normal gig is touring Europe with jump jive band King Pleasure and the Cookie Boys.

And the last social of the term was the Xmas meal at Dylan 's (and then onto Jive).

In 2002, the band worked with Jive records to release Cheer Up!

The Jive has a smaller history, having originated with African slaves in the United States.

These genres form sixty percent of the Latin Danceprogram, along with Paso Doble (Spanish) and Jive (from North America).

By 1999, Britney started her solo singing career and launched her first album, Baby One More Time, with Jive Records.

Everyone knows that it was David Cook and not Archuleta that was crowned the 2008 winner of American Idol, but Archuleta found his own measure of success, signing a recording contract with Jive Records.

After that show wrapped, she went in search of a record deal and found a home at Jive Records.

Immediately after being fired, she became Brown's manager and got him a recording contract with Jive Records within a week.

Grab your best guy or gal and jive on out to the dance floor on Saturday, August 15!

She eventually attracts the attention of Jive Records.

The Jive became well-known in white society, and was danced in club ballrooms nightly.

Britney, the one who shells out for everyone's payroll, not to mention lawyer's fees (for both her and Kevin) and has to pay $25,000 for some mysterious audit at Jive Records is allowed access to a meager $1,500 per week of her own money.