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jive turkey

noun

Meaning

  1. A fool, a chump, a target for jiving.
  2. Someone who performs the jive dance, especially in an amusing or showy manner.
  3. Someone who behaves in a glib and disingenuous fashion, a jiver.

Etymology / origin

Coined in the 1970s, originally African-American.

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