Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun jive

1 sense of jive

Sense 1
swing, swing music, jive -- (a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz)
       => jazz -- (a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb jive

1 sense of jive

Sense 1
jive -- (dance to jive music; dance the jive)
       => dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe -- (move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance; "My husband and I like to dance at home to the radio")

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