Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. US black) slang-talking.

1944		E. Conrad intro. to D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 6: Jive talk may have been originally a kind of ‘pig Latin’ that the slaves talked with each other.
1947		Dly News (NY) 21 Jan. 18/3: Many teachers don’t understand teen-age language like ‘square’, ‘beating feet’ and ‘swapping dandruff.’ So he’s starting a course [...] in the jive jargon.
1958		‘Ed Lacy’ Room to Swing 16: Honey, why don’t you cut the phony jive talk.
1965		W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 169: A ‘square’ was a society person who [...] didn’t want to be a bodgie, or didn’t dig our jive-talk.
1977		J. Sayles Union Dues (1978) 277: He’s got the black-leather Gestapo-pimp jacket, the rock and rhythm of his ghet-toe (accent on the toe) jivetalk with it sprinkling of no-bullshit-mufucker Maoisms.
1986		O. Senior ‘Ballad’ Summer Lightning 130: He down Mass Curly shop playing domino and dancing and giving out him jive talk.
2002		‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 63: What would we do without jive? Attach it to hand-, -talkin, -turkey, -time, -ass, and a slew of others.