jazz vs jive

jazz

verb
  • To dance to the tunes of jazz music. 

  • To play (jazz music). 

  • To destroy. 

  • To complicate. 

  • To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around. 

  • To distract or pester. 

  • To ejaculate. 

  • To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite 

noun
  • Something of excellent quality, the genuine article. 

  • The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s). 

  • A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation. 

  • Semen, jizz. 

  • Energy, excitement, excitability. 

  • Nonsense. 

jive

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

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

  • To deceive; to be deceptive. 

noun
  • 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. 

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