Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

jive

jive , noun

a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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