Synonyms of the word

jive

• v. (transitive, intransitive, US, colloquial) To deceive; to be deceptive.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To dance.
• n. A dance style popular in the 1940–50s.
• n. Swing, a style of jazz music.
• n. A slang associated with jazz musicians; hepcat patois or hipster jargon.
• n. (US, colloquial) Nonsense; transparently deceptive talk.
• n. (US, colloquial, often pejorative) African American Vernacular English.
• v. (US) Alternative spelling of jibe.

dance

• n. A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social…
• n. A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
• n. (heraldry) A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center…
• n. A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.
• n. (uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
• n. A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
• v. (intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
• v. (transitive) To perform the steps to.
• v. (transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.

jazz

• n. (music) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American…
• n. Energy, excitement, excitability.
• n. The substance or makeup of a thing.
• n. Unspecified thing(s).
• n. (with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
• n. Nonsense.
• v. To destroy.
• v. To play (jazz music).
• v. To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
• v. To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite.
• v. To complicate.
• v. (intransitive, US slang, dated) To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.
• v. To distract/pester.

swing

• v. (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
• v. (intransitive) To dance.
• v. (intransitive) To ride on a swing.
• v. (intransitive) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
• v. (intransitive) To hang from the gallows.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) to move sideways in its trajectory.
• v. (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.
• v. (transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
• v. (transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
• v. (transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than…
• v. (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) to make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
• v. (transitive and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
• v. (transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
• v. (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
• v. (transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
• v. (nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
• n. The manner in which something is swung.
• n. A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
• n. A hanging seat in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
• n. A dance style.
• n. (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
• n. The amount of change towards or away from something.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
• n. The diameter that a lathe can cut.
• n. In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
• n. A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
• n. Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in…
• n. (obsolete) Free course; unrestrained liberty.
• n. (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.