barn dance vs jive

barn dance

noun
  • A type of set step routine dancing, such as square dance. 

verb
  • To take part in barn dancing. 

jive

noun
  • A dance style popular in the 1940–50s. 

  • Swing, a style of jazz music. 

  • A slang associated with jazz musicians; hepcat patois or hipster jargon. 

  • African-American Vernacular English. 

  • Synonym of bullshit: patent nonsense, transparently deceptive talk. 

verb
  • To jibe, in the sense of to accord, to agree 

  • To dance, originally to jive or swing music; later, to jazz, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, disco, etc. 

  • To deceive; to be deceptive. 

How often have the words barn dance and jive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )