See jive on Wiktionary
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"text": "Although speaking Western Japanese to your friends in Ōsaka, Kyōto, or Kōbe will allow you to get closer to them, speaking Western Japanese in Tōkyō might seem as outlandish as hearing a Japanese exchange student back home speaking jive or cockney.",
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"text": "\"Oh come on,\" she said. \"I heard you talking jive the other day when you were playing with your dolls. And back in February, when you recited that poem by, by—what was the poet's name?\n\"Langston Hughes?\"\n\"Right, Langston Hughes,\" Kanta said. \"You spoke jive when you read that poem, remember?\"",
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"text": "In the DuPont plantation state they even passed a law that said if building codes aren't lived up to you can deposit your money in one of the company banks and leave it then 'til the cat comes round. Ain't that the jivest crap you ever heard of? I mean, paternalism with a capital WHITE.",
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