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jive around

jive around verb: to tease or mess with (someone).

Verb

jive around (third-person singular simple present jives around, present participle jiving around, simple past and past participle jived around)

  1. (dated, slang) To tease or mess with (someone).

Forms of jive around

third-person singular presentjives around
present participlejiving around
past participlejived around
pastjived around

Questions about jive around

What does jive around mean?
Jive around means to tease or mess with (someone).
What part of speech is jive around?
Jive around is a verb.
What is the past tense of jive around?
The past tense of jive around is jived around.

Words near jive around in the dictionary

  1. Jivaroan
  2. Jivaroans
  3. jivatma
  4. jivatmas
  5. jive
  6. jive around
  7. jive turkey
  8. jive turkeys
  9. jive-ass
  10. jive-asses
  11. jiveass

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