Jive turkey
Cool cats were around since the ‘60s. But, if you were trying way too hard to be a cool cat and didn’t really know a thing about the hip scene . . . you’d quickly be known as a jive turkey.
Jive carries multiple meanings, and is another one originally rooted in the African-American jazz music scene. Over time however, it began to be associated with meaningless banter. And, being called a turkey has never been a compliment, so the combination of the two really did make one out to be pretty damn foolish.