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
The pair performed routines including a show dance to Rain On Me by Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande, a Paso Doble to Dream On by Aerosmith, and a jive to Proud Mary.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
Every time Dorothy and her comrades reprised “Ease on Down the Road,” the woman next to me couldn’t resist joining them with some impromptu hand jive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 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
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 Beaumont, Francis
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
Everything is flat and framed in medium shots, missing the dark cityscape aesthetic of the first film, which jived with the ethos of modern mythology.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
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
Linda loved dancing, jiving, rock and roll and she had been a member of a dance display group called Pat's Popsicles.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2022
Today, the “damas” or “big mothers” as the dancers are known, can be found dancing in the early mornings and evenings, blasting stereos, waving fans and scarves, while jitterbugging, waltzing and jiving.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2021
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
Nobody captured the bonhomie better than Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who told a whooping crowd of party faithful, “You all represent the most jiving, hip, happening, and generally funkapolitan party in the world.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2021
“What’s he mean about how even his mom could be jiving him, Dad?”
From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate
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