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jive
noun- swing jazz US, 1937
- Hero-worship of Americans and the flashier aspects of American life seem to be the most immediate reason for the popularity of jive[.] — William Sansom, A Public for Jive [The Public’s Progress], 1947
- The Blue Mirror, around the corner, specializes in hot jive. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 132, 1951
- a highly stylised vernacular that originated with black jazz musicians US, 1928
Spoken by HEP CAT(S), - The night wound up with them accusing me of trying to pass for white, because they couldn’t believe that any white man could be as hip to the jive as I was. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 204, 1946
- That old street jive just comes flooding right back, doesn’t it, eh? — Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, 1988
- Did the stuffed shirts at the BBC think that we didn’t get the jive, daddio[?] — Stuart Jeffries, Mrs Slocombe’s Pussy, p. 24, 2000
- insincere talk; nonsense US, 1928
- [I]f they got mad about it he gave them a line of his soft Southern jive. — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 24, 1945
- There were a lot of doctors and druggists in my family, and I used to hear a lot of medical jive when I apprenticed in my uncle’s drugstore, so I knew which symptoms went with what sickness. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, pp. 36–37, 1946
- Show me where the kitty lives and I’ll believe that jive. — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 40, 1952
- [F]or God’s sake don’t listen to that drool how the stuff [drugs] eat you up ... that kind of jive is for squares. — Harry J. Anslinger (US Commissioner of Narcotics), The Murderers, p. 174, 1961
- And also how much I would esteem myself once I got rid of them somewhere in the Loop, how I had put myself out for my fellow man and all that jive. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 162, 1961
- But back he came, more dead than alive / And the monkey came up with more of his jive. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 24, 1976
- marijuana or a marijuana cigarette US, 1963
- It’s oney gauge he’s on, a little jive. Marijuana ain’t no habit like heroin. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 20, 1948
- “What started you on the jive?” Jake asked. — Herbert Simmons, Corner Boy, p. 55, 1957
- I mean, the main studs could have called a conference and set down and worked the whole thing out over a few sticks of this mellow jive. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 22, 1961
- We can cop some jive anyplace. — Donald Goines, Cry Revenge, p. 41, 1974
- heroin or, less often, opium US
- Boy, leave me tell you one thing, if you knew like we know, you’d leave this jive alone[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 248, 1946
- You’ve been taking dope, horse, jive, anything you want to call it. — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 22, 1952
- He was a dope fiend, and he told me he had just beat a rap, and needed some jive. — Henry Williamson, Hustler!, p. 149, 1965
- You can get right funky, Jo-Jo, when the last of the junk is in sight. You’re real cool when there’s a lot of the jive, but you get doggish as a motherfucker when it ain’t but a little bit left. — Donald Goines, Crime Partners, p. 11, 1978
- — Robert Ashton, This Is Heroin, p. 206, 2002
- a handgun US
- [T]hey had fought over a woman and then over a gun, which one of the men referred to at different times as “my piece,” “my thing,” “my roscoe,” “my jive,” “my cannon,” “my shit,” “my pipe,” and “my heater.” — L.H. Whittemore, Cop!, p. 197, 1969
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