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
They also performed a football-themed jive to One Way Or Another by Blondie, earning them a standing ovation - and their second perfect score of the night.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
“Little bit of Neil Diamond,” he said as the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra revved up the go-go self-improvement jive of “Crunchy Granola Suite.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2025
I could blend in with the jive cats, swirl the Lindy ladies, let my feet groove, think of nothing but the now.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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
Not everyone in the cast jives with this rhythm; Pritchett’s full-toned bass stumbles through the tempo.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
My version is perfectly suited for families and jives with the sheet-pan cooking method popular today.
From Washington Post ● May 2, 2019
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
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
“I figured new league, some of the teams might not have jived yet, so I thought it was a good idea to take all the unders.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2019
He juked and jived and spun and danced and darted, and he left them squeezing handfuls of air.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
In Tenebaum’s hands he’s a mix of James Brown, Little Richard and the jiving genie in “Aladdin.”
From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2017
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
Lionel Hampton is playing, and the place is jiving and hopping.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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