Jive has passed from the vocabulary stage to application to our evryday
language. It is a fact that the American language has absorbed and made its
own, many of the quaint expressions which originted among Harlem's musicians
and performers. Below are listed the more widely used jive locutions.
- Apple
- The big town, the main stem.
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- Gate
- A male person.
- Get in there
- Go to work, get busy, make it hot.
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- Mellow
- Alright, fine.
- Mess
- Something good.
- Meter
- Quarter, twenty-five cents.
- Mezz
- Anything supreme, genuine.
- Mitt Pounding
- Applause.
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