jive
- colloquial adj.
- absurdity n.
- cheat n.
- conversation n.
- dance n.
- deception n.
- defense n.
- distortion n.
- evasion n.
- excuse n.
- fabrication n.
- flattery n.
- guile n.
- jazz n.
- jest n.
- lip service n.
- malarky n.
- nonsense n.
- patter n.
- piffle n.
- poppycock n.
- rigmarole n.
- sham n.
- song and dance n.
- spiel n.
- talk n.
- tommyrot n.
- twaddle n.
- victimization n.
- banter v.
- bluff v.
- boast v.
- brag v.
- defraud v.
- delude v.
- equivocate v.
- fabricate v.
- fib v.
- fool v.
- hedge v.
- jest v.
- joke v.
- josh v.
- pretend v.
- prevaricate v.
- ridicule v.
- satirize v.
- tease v.
- trick v.
- twit v.
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Cantrell says he’s experimenting with “vibe coding External link,” which I hear a lot, and sometimes mistakenly call jive coding, which works, too.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
Back in the actual 1990s, ice dancers cycled through traditional dances: samba, blues, polka, rumba, quickstep, tango, jive, paso doble, Viennese waltz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
In the same compilation, Carson explained that a jive is difficult for a first dance and praised Irwin’s positivity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2025
The singer took part in the Strictly Christmas special over a decade ago, where he was crowned winner after dancing a jive.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024
She sounds like a six-year-old reciting lines from a school play about the food groups: You mean you’re supposed to eat jive servings of fruit and vegetables a day?
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
But it also jives with what’s happening in artificial intelligence financing.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
He had been a singles skater but turning jumps into jives is not an overnight job.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025
Standard time, the group argues, better jives with the movement of the sun and the circadian rhythm, or body clock, of human beings.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 11, 2023
By checking in on irrigation systems and soil wetness, especially during the early transplant/growing days, you'll work out a routine that jives for your specific plan.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2022
So now my jives are off: pray Heaven he be here!
From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (2 of 10) - the Humourous Lieutenant by Francis Beaumont
So grateful for all the success — it’s really cool that people have jived with it and listened to it the way they have.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
There were also celebrations for DIY SOS star Nick Knowles, who jived with Luba Mushtuk to We Built This City by Starship on his 62nd birthday.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2024
His leadership style and his approach to things haven’t always jived with manager Scott Servais.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
If someone came to me and was like, you could do this cool thing for Netflix or whatever and it really jived with my life, I would do it, but I don’t know.
From The Verge ● Aug. 24, 2021
They jostled and jammed and high-fived and jived.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
Today, the “damas” or “big mothers” as the dancers are known, can be found dancing in the early mornings and evenings, blasting their stereos, waving fans and scarves, while jitterbugging, waltzing and jiving.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 17, 2021
The young guard Irving can call to mind a young Earl Monroe, a nervous breakdown collection of jiving sidesteps and spins and jukes.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2016
The dead were dancing, jiving when Biggar gave them lead with a penalty from halfway after Brown had held on after a tackle.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2015
Another jazz star, trumpeter Roy Eldridge, told Esquire magazine in 1961, “I think he’s jiving, baby.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2015
I was somebody else there: Mr. In-Your-Face, jiving and driving, looping and hooping, staying clean and being mean, the inside rover till the game was over.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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