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jive

Energetic American dance that evolved from the jitterbug, popular in the 1940s and 1950s; a forerunner of rock and roll.



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A collective wince is also still in order whenever digital disaster Jar Jar Binks (now a senator) makes one of his brief appearances, opens his mouth and spills forth his jive talk.
But just when you're about to despair of ever understanding what's going on or being said, the characters and their affiliations start to crystallize and their bumptious cockney jive talk goes from ``sounds funny'' to just plain funny.
 
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