- present participle of jive.
jiving
Example Sentences
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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
Is hand jiving to Dancing Queen from inside a stationary Ford Focus on your bucket list?
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2020
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
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
