Meaning & use
jiving
Dancing energetically to fast swing or jazz music, typically with quick, bouncy steps.
See it in a sentence
The couple spent the whole evening jiving to the live jazz band.
Dancers kept jiving across the floor as the band played faster songs.
A note on using this word
In informal American slang, "jiving" can also mean joking or talking nonsense, as in "quit jiving me."
Words with a similar meaning
dancing
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Another way to use it
2. verb
Talking playfully or misleadingly; joking around (informal, American slang).
He was just jiving with his friends and didn't mean the insult seriously.
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