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Jive

noun

A style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz. Synonyms: swing, swing music.

verb

Dance to jive music; dance the jive.

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... it was jes' the same. The two was thicker'n gumdrops, only Ned didn't go to the office no more. He allus came to our house instid. One day, when he was waitin' fer Ol' Swallertail, he says to me: 'Ingua, how'd ye like to be rollin' in money, an' Jive in a big city, an' hev yer own automobile to ride in, an' ...

— Mary Louise in the Country • L. Frank Baum (AKA Edith Van Dyne)

... Emphatic form of {funky}; funky ugly). Unusually for hacker jargon, this may actually derive from black street-jive. To say it properly, the first syllable should be growled rather than spoken. Usage: humorous. "Man, the {{ASCII}}-to-{{EBCDIC}} code in that printer driver is *fuggly*." ...

— THE JARGON FILE, VERSION 2.9.10