Cab Calloway's Jive Dictionary

May, 2023

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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