JIVE
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JIVE, also jive talk. (1) The
SLANG or
JARGON associated in the earlier 20c with such African-American forms of music as jive (swing, jazz, etc.). (2) In the later 20c, an informal term for flattering, deceptive, exaggerated, meaningless talk, especially among black Americans (
Hey,
don't give me that jive,
man!);
DOUBLE TALK: ‘Everything that we do must be aimed toward the total liberation, unification and empowerment of Afrika. Anything short of that is jive’ (
Black World, Oct. 1973). Compare
BLARNEY,
RAP.
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