jive

jive
n (all of music) swing, jazz, bop, bebop, big band music, jitterbug music; boogie, boogie-woogie, rhythm and blues, blues.
2.Slang. nonsense, drivel, twaddle, moonshine, poppycock, bosh, Inf. flimflam, Inf. guff, Inf. malarkey; All Sl. jazz, bull, baloney, bushwa, crap.
v
3. jitterbug, lindy, Inf. hop.
4.Slang. fool, trick, Inf. flimflam, bluff, take in; banter, tease, Inf. fun, Inf. kid, Inf. rib, Inf. josh, Sl. razz; make fun of, mock, ridicule, Inf. rag.

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