To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.
To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.
High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.
To deceive; to be deceptive.
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.
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.
A dance style popular in the 1940–50s.