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 is a dance.
See also Modern Jive dance.
Cab Calloway's Hepster's Dictionary defined jive as

(1) (n) Harlemese speech or lingo; also stuff and things. Ex. "did you bring the jive [i.e. liquor]?"

(2) (v) to kid along, to blarney, to give a girl a line. Ex. "He can jive his way into any chick's heart".

Jive (noun) can also mean talking in a misleading, false, worthless, or glib way, as in You're jivin' me ..., Don't give me none of that jive talk!, or That's close enough for jive.
Jive (verb) is an ebonics slang term meaning "jibe", "mix with" or "reconcile well with;" i.e. aggreeability or harmonization; "That don't particularly jive with my understanding of the situation."

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