• Dutch: misleiden, blaasjes wijsmaken
• Finnish: hämätä

• Dutch: dansen, swingen
• Finnish: tanssia

Noun

1. In the context of "US|colloquial": Nonsense; transparently deceptive talk.

   Don’t give me that jive. I know where you were last night.

Translations

Usage notes

"Jive" and "jibe" are frequently used interchangeably in the U.S. to indicate the concept "to agree or accord". However, while one recent dictionary accepts this usage, most sources consider this an error.

See also

• bullshit
• jibe

Jive may refer to:

• JIVE, Joint Institute for VLBI in European astronomy
• Jive (dance), a dance style from 1940s
• Jive (dialect), African American Vernacular English
• Jive (publisher), a Japanese publishing company
• Jive Electro, a record label
• Jive filter, an English-to-Jive automatic translation program
• jive in Hinduism: individual higher/holy spirit a.k.a. oversoul
• JIVE Magazine, an entertainment/technology/urban culture magazine
• Jive Records, an American record label
• Hand jive, a kind of dance game from the 1950s
• Modern Jive or French Jive, a dance style from the 1980s

Jive may also be used for:

• Swing (genre)
• JIVE, an annual cultural festival at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology in India
• Jive, form of sign language used in William Gibson's Neuromancer

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