jive talk

She knew a lot of jive talk from Yvonne.

My parents' generation, not knowing political correctness was around the corner, called it "jive talk".

Glossary "Jive talk" is used more in connection with marijuana than with junk.

Speech slides from Elizabethan verse to jive talk to spiels in Spanish.

Here he felt comfortable enough, on occasion, to divert patrons with nothing more than an evening of jive talk and false starts on the keys.

Instead she had command of jive talk, adolescent slang, and high school double-talk which would be meaningless to any but another American bobbysoxer.

Someone who understands "jive talk."

Bobby's grandmother (Helen Martin) overhears the "jive talk" and shows her disapproval.

In a place like Paradise, it's all plastic chatter, glossy surface jive talk formulated to slide everyone into bed with as little friction as possible.

Gibson's constant use of black jive talk was not an affectation; it was simply his uptown New York dialect.

Mitchell lit up the 1986 clubhouse with his jive talk, but the conservatives whispered he was a "bad influence" on Strawberry and Dwight Gooden.

A woman wearing a lei resists a sailor's come-on but then tells him, not straight out but in jive talk, that he had better start brushing.

Her type of clothing suggests she is African, but her jive talk suggests she's from the U.S.A.

The finger snaps and jive talk beat were imitated in advertisements for McDonald's, Dr. Pepper, and others.

Here, Michael Genet is a strutting, hammy Benedick whose asides to the audience and jive talk punctuates his pushing for effect.

The narration mimics the speech patterns of characters in their place and time - generally effectively, although it's hard not to wince at the jive talk of the 1970's.

For that reason, Waters persecuted black soldiers like Private C.J. Memphis, whose broad grin and jive talk made Waters' blood boil.

Bob Wills, who had performed in blackface as a young man, liberally used comic asides, whoops, and jive talk when directing his famous Texas Playboys.

Music critic Johnny Rogan interprets some of the lyrics as a parody on jive talk as well as on American consumerism.

It traces rappers' verbal gymnastics to the be-bop jive talk of Cab Calloway and Dizzy Gillespie, which is true as far as it goes.

Early in his career he appeared as himself as a contestant on You Bet Your Life opposite Groucho Marx, demonstrating a comic barrage of jive talk.

Despite the hyperbole and numerous writer's tics - like Richmond's lapses into a period jive talk, in which female singers are called canaries - a real person still emerges in this book.

Lots of background jive talk, chat up lines and bogus off-tape comments make you feel like you're gatecrashing a party at the point where everybody pairs off to go to his or her place.

He can listen to street talk and judge the credibility of a speaker from the nuance of his inflection, distinguish jive talk from truth in a way few outsiders to these neighborhoods can.