To act foolish, to joke around or act in a random nature
shorter versions- jivin & jivin'
"you straight jiving, get over it homie"
"Whats up jive turkey, you straight jiving?"
"I be jiving all day!"
To be on the same level/page as someone. Used much like the term "Chillin", except the people you are "jiving" with are usually very close to you.
Tim: "Hey dude what's going down?"
Me: "Just jiving with jerry."
Me: "Hey Tim, Come over and jive with us!"
Adjective: ridiculous, superfluous, unnecessary, or foolish.
Generally a description paired with turkey, but any combination is acceptable.
Why you gotta be trippin'? Jive white ass turkey.
Oceans Twelve (Stealing the egg from the museum)
Bruce Willis: Julia! (roberts) What a pleasant surprise! Hows Danny?
Tess(Julia): Good! I'm just here for the photo op.
**EGG STOLEN**
Detective: Ms. Roberts, I just got off the phone with Julia. She said she's in London right now.
Bruce Willis: you jiving little bitch.
Severely damaged. Reduced to a state of collapse. Ruined.
Our traffic figures were good until the website got jived.
We ignored our customers, it nearly jived our whole business.
It used to work but it's jived now.
Can we fix it? No it's jived.
Jive is a bad thing you fool. If you're talking some jive, it means you're talking bullshit. If somebody calls you a "jive turkey" you just got insulted.
Fool: "Ima jive turkey"
Me: "I believe you"
Like a feeling, like there is good jives and bad jives, like you get good jives when you listen to the poop poop poop poop song by the toilet bowl cleaners, and bad jives when the blue haired girl is chasing you because you said blue biscuit isn’t a gender.
When I aced the math test I got some really good jives.
I got bad jives when someone told me Titanic is better then Food Boy