Why in the 70s people would say "jive turkey" and "sucka" alot?

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Dino11 · M

From the military during Vietnam, ‘jive ass mfer’

bijouxbroussard · F

@Dino11 No, it followed black soldiers into the military. It didn’t come from there.

Dino11 · M

@bijouxbroussard First time I heard it, at age 18.

bijouxbroussard · F

@Dino11

Jive talk, also known as Harlem jive or simply Jive, the argot of jazz, jazz jargon, vernacular of the jazz world, slang of jazz, and parlance of hip is an African-American Vernacular English slang or vocabulary that developed in Harlem, where "jive" was played and was adopted more widely in African-American society, peaking in the 1940s.

Dino11 · M

@bijouxbroussard We didn't get much of that in farm country Indiana,
back in the day. LOL Zero blacks in the County I grew up in.

bijouxbroussard · F

@Dino11 Yes, I figured you might not have been familiar. I knew the term was much older than me. My father said it was even popular when he was young.

Dino11 · M

@bijouxbroussard Was it a good term back then?

bijouxbroussard · F

@Dino11 It mostly meant "bs", someone making up stuff or exaggerating was "jiving". Not quite as bad as lying, but nothing to take seriously.

Dino11 · M

@bijouxbroussard @bijouxbroussard Thank you.