Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (orig. US black) to talk slang; thus jive-talker n.; jive-talking n. and adj [jive talk n.].

1963		J. Rechy City of Night 229: The appeal of the jive-talking street hustler is stronger for the more jaded.
1978		S. King Stand (1990) 347: A young jive-talking black guy.
1987		D. Hebdige Cut ’n’ Mix 147: The radio djs Toop refers to were the jive-talkers of the be-bop era.
2000		Guardian Rev. 7 Jan. 19: His union-busting tendencies and his knee-jerk anti-semitism [...] find their animated analogues in the pimp-like, jive-talkin’ crows in Dumbo.
2002		‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 158: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Jive talkin. Needle dancin.
2010		IOL News (Western Cape) 18 Oct. 🌐 When flight attendants were unable to communicate with a pair of jive-talking hipsters, Billingsley’s character volunteered to translate, saying, ‘I talk jive’.
2016		Guardian G2 14 Oct. 5/1: He wins the role of a stereotypical jive-talking street hood.

2. to talk inconsequentially, to talk nonsense [jive n.¹ (2)].

2023

(con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 83: Monroe and this unknown cholo jive-talked.