jive talk

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jive talk

n. slang; contemporary fad words. I like to hear jive talk. It’s like trying to work a puzzle.

See also: jive, talk

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A similar publication, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, appeared in 1945.

"WHAT IS HIP?" AND OTHER INQUIRIES IN JAZZ SLANG LEXICOGRAPHY

It is a bittersweet, rousing message: Sometimes the ultimate jive talk is the jive we tell ourselves.

The Jive Talker: an artist's genesis

It will also avoid any tendency, on either my or the headline writer's part, to substitute the letter 's' where it appears at the end of a word for the letter 'z', or lapse suddenly into text-speak or jive talk.

It's hip and it'll be happening..

See you later alligator" did not originate with Bill Haley and rock and roll: "See you later" entered the American language in 1870 and had been adapted to jive talk by the 1930s by adding alligator and the response, "In a while, crocodile".

All right now, let's talk catchphrases

But just when you're about to despair of ever understanding what's going on or being said, the characters and their affiliations start to crystallize and their bumptious cockney jive talk goes from ``sounds funny'' to just plain funny.

`LOCK, STOCK' LOADED WITH LAUGHS

The focus was particularly evident during the first night, when Wayans and a buffed-up, swaggering Jada Pinkett seemed to be trying to out-do one another in the jive talk.