n.1.a dance to fast music that became popular in the 1930s and 1940s in which a man and a woman hold hands and the man swings the woman around; music that people can dance a jive to
2.something that someone says that you do not believe is true
3.a style of singing that developed in the 1930s and 1940s in which words are sung in a humorous way
v.1.to dance a jive
2.to tell someone something that you know is not true
