Jive
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- Jive is Swing music, or a type of quick-paced and energetic jazz. Cow Cow Davenport recorded a song called State Street Jive in 1928. Mitchell Parish defined it as "syncopated music played noisily, and (usually) fast, with great emphasis on rhythm."
- Jive Records is a record label
- Jive Turkey is a derogatory statement
- Jive is a dance.
- Jive is the Annual Cultural festival of Jaypee Institute of Information Technology,India.
- Modern Jive dance.
- Hand Jive
- The jive dialect of American English.
- Jive filter, a simple computer program that produces a comic parody of jive.
- JIVE Magazine, a music magazine
- JIVE, Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe
- Used in Neuromancer by William Gibson as a form of sign language, often used amidst the underworld.