Jive

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Jive may refer to:

Language

• Glossary of jive talk, African American urban slang popular from the 1940s to the 1970s
  • African American Vernacular English, in general, referred to as "Harlem jive" or "jive" in certain contexts

People

• Jive Jones, an American pop singer and producer

Arts, entertainment, and media

Dance

• Jive (dance), a Latin dance style from the 1940s
• A variety of related dances including Jitterbug, Lindy Hop, and Rock and Roll (dance)
• Hand jive, a kind of dance game from the 1950s
• Modern Jive or French Jive, a dance style from the 1980s
• Skip jive, a dance

Fiction

• Jive, form of sign language used in William Gibson's Neuromancer and Mona Lisa Overdrive

Music

• Jive Records, an American record label
  • Jive Electro, a sublabel of the record label
• Swing music

Print

• Jive (publisher), a Japanese publishing company

Software and technology

• Jive filter, an English-to-"Jive" automatic translation program
• Jive Software, a software company selling enterprise social networking
  • Jive (software), the main application produced by Jive Software

Other uses

• Jiva also known as jive (in Hinduism, variant spelling), the immortal essence of a living organism in Hinduism
• JIVE, an annual cultural festival at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology in India
• Jive, obsolete slang for Marijuana, dating to at least 1930s
• Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe, an astronomical interferometry used in radio astronomy