"Hit That Jive Jack" as written by Johnny Alston and Campbell Skeets Tolbert....
Hit that jive Jack
Put it in your pocket till I get back
Going downtown to see a man
And I ain't got time to shake your hand
Hit that jive Jack
Put it in your pocket till I get back
Time and time waits for no man
And I ain't got time to shake your hand
Standing on a corner
All full of jive
But you know that you're my boy
So I'm forced to give you five
Shadde yadda
Hit that jive Jack
Put it in your pocket till I get back
Going downtown to see a man
And I ain't got time to shake your hand
Put it in your pocket till I get back
Going downtown to see a man
And I ain't got time to shake your hand
Hit that jive Jack
Put it in your pocket till I get back
Time and time waits for no man
And I ain't got time to shake your hand
Standing on a corner
All full of jive
But you know that you're my boy
So I'm forced to give you five
Shadde yadda
Hit that jive Jack
Put it in your pocket till I get back
Going downtown to see a man
And I ain't got time to shake your hand
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Hit means 'hide'. This transformation could have happened in many ways,
On the street. You don't want to be saying 'hide the marijuana' because the police might hear. Hide becomes hid becomes 'hit'. It might have started with "When I saw the cop, I hid that jive", or "when I saw the cop I hit that jive, jack".
In the songwriting studio. It might have been a transformation from "hid that jive", used on the street, to 'hit in the song, because it sounds better in the song.
Maybe the only way to know for sure is to ask the songwriter.