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jive
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jive
a style of lively and jerky dance performed to jazz and, later, to rock and roll, popular esp in the 1940s and 1950s


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It is a bittersweet, rousing message: Sometimes the ultimate jive talk is the jive we tell ourselves.
The Jive Talker: an artist's genesis by Jurich, Joscelyn / Artforum International
It will also avoid any tendency, on either my or the headline writer's part, to substitute the letter 's' where it appears at the end of a word for the letter 'z', or lapse suddenly into text-speak or jive talk.
It's hip and it'll be happening.. by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
See you later alligator" did not originate with Bill Haley and rock and roll: "See you later" entered the American language in 1870 and had been adapted to jive talk by the 1930s by adding alligator and the response, "In a while, crocodile".
All right now, let's talk catchphrases by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
 
 
 
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