[Ads-l] Antedating of "Jive Talk"

[Shapiro, Fred]

jive talk (OED 1939)

1938 Variety 8 June 1/1 (ProQuest)

Sophisticated jive talk — swing musician's lingo — has created some curioius Americana on the waxes.

Fred Shapiro

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