Jive
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Jive or Jiving may refer to:
- a vernacular English, see African American Vernacular English
- an annual cultural festival at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology in India
- JIVE Magazine, entertainment/technology/urban culture
- JIVE, Joint Institute for VLBI in European astronomy
- a form of sign language used in William Gibson's Neuromancer
- Jive (publisher), a Japanese publishing company
In music and dance:
- Jive (dance), a dance style from 1940s
- Hand jive, a kind of dance game from the 1950s
- Modern Jive, or French Jive, a dance style from the 1980s
- a type of quick-paced and energetic jazz, see Swing (genre)
- Jive Electro, a record label
- Jive Records, an American record label