“Jives” means “is talking nonsense” or (archaic) “dances”.
{Tries looking it up} Wikipedia says “jives” can be a term for African American Vernacular English. The Urban Dictionary gives it a bunch of definitions, including both of mine, “jibe”, and forms of African American speech which include a lot of slang, but not any sort of African American speech in general.
On the other hand, the language may have moved on—I keep seeing that mistake (the Urban Dictionary implies it isn’t a mistake), and maybe I should give up.
I still retain a fondness for people who get it right.
Nitpick: “jibes” means “is consistent with”.
“Jives” means “is talking nonsense” or (archaic) “dances”.
{Tries looking it up} Wikipedia says “jives” can be a term for African American Vernacular English. The Urban Dictionary gives it a bunch of definitions, including both of mine, “jibe”, and forms of African American speech which include a lot of slang, but not any sort of African American speech in general.
On the other hand, the language may have moved on—I keep seeing that mistake (the Urban Dictionary implies it isn’t a mistake), and maybe I should give up.
I still retain a fondness for people who get it right.
haha… thanks!