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— English words —

• jive v. (Transitive, intransitive, US, colloquial) To deceive; to be deceptive.
• jive v. (Intransitive, colloquial) To dance, originally to jive or swing music; later, to jazz, rock and roll…
• jive n. A dance style popular in the 1940–50s.
• jive n. Swing, a style of jazz music.
• jive n. A slang associated with jazz musicians; hepcat patois or hipster jargon.
• jive n. (US, colloquial) Synonym of bullshit: patent nonsense, transparently deceptive talk.
• jive n. (US, colloquial, often derogatory) African-American Vernacular English.
• jive v. (US) To jibe, in the sense of to accord, to agree.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Czech
  • jive n. Jive (dance).
  • jívě n. Dative/locative singular of jíva.
• Northern kurdish
  • ji␣...␣ve From.
  • ji␣...␣ve As of, since.

— English words, defined in German —

• jive S. Jive, Swingmusik.
• jive V. Intransitiv: swingen, tanzen.
• jive V. Umgangssprachlich, transitiv: jemanden belügen, belästigen, beschwatzen.

— English words, defined in French —

• jive v. Parler avec sarcasmes.
• jive v. (États-Unis) (Familier) Tromper, être trompeur.
• jive v. (Intransitif) (Familier) Danser.
• jive n. Jive, style de danse populaire dans les années 1940.
• jive n. (Jazz) Swing, un style de jazz.
• jive n. Jive talk, argot associé aux musiciens noirs Américains.
• jive n. (États-Unis) (Familier) Non-sens, absurdité.
• jive v. (États-Unis) Variante orthographique de jibe.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• jive s. (Danza) jive.

— In German —

• Jive S. Tanz: die gezähmte Variante des Jitterbugs, die ohne besondere…
• Jive S. Musik: eine spezielle Art Swingmusik.

— In Dutch —

• jive n. (Muziek) levendige Amerikaanse stijldans op jazzmuziek of…

— In French —

• jive n.f. Danse latino-américaine de compétition descendant du lindy hop.

— In Italian —

• jive s. (Musica) musica simile allo swing.
• jive s. (Danza) torneo di ballo dal Nordamerica.

50 English words from 12 English definitions

accord African African␣American agree American and As␣of associated bullshit colloquial dance Dative deceive deceptive derogatory English From hepcat hipster intransitive jargon jazz jibe jive later locative music musicians nonsense often originally patent patois popular rock rock␣and␣roll roll sense since singular slang style swing Synonym talk the Transitive transparently Vernacular with

28 English words from 18 foreign definitions

allo argot Art aux dal dans Danser Danza des descendant die hop jazz jibe Jitterbugs jive latino les lindy lindy␣hop noirs Non sens simile style swing talk Unis

47 foreign words from 18 foreign definitions

absurdité américaine Américains Amerikaanse années associé avec ballo belästigen belügen beschwatzen besondere compétition danse dans␣les eine États États-Unis être Familier gezähmte Intransitif Intransitiv jazzmuziek jemanden latino-américaine musica musiciens Musik Muziek Non-sens ohne orthographique Parler populaire sarcasmes spezielle stijldans swingen Tanz tanzen torneo transitiv Tromper trompeur Umgangssprachlich Variante

10 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

jived jiver jives jivey jivers jiveass jive-ass jive-asses jive␣turkey jive␣turkeys

4 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

hand␣jives Leijiverse shucks␣and␣jives shucked␣and␣jived

2 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

hand␣jive shuck␣and␣jive

4 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ive Ive -ive I've

6 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

jived jiver jives jivey juvie Virje

8 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

ive Ive -ive I've VEI vie Vie VIE

23 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

cive dive five Five give hive jibe jine jiva jivy Jove juve Juve kive live Oi've rive Rive -tive vive wive yive zive

4 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

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