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ska

[ skah ]

noun

  1. a modern style of vocalized Jamaican popular music, which emerged in the 1950s as a blend of African-Jamaican folk music, calypso, and American rhythm and blues, notable for its shuffling, scratchlike tempo and jazzlike horn riffs on the offbeat.


ska

/ skɑː /

noun

  1. a type of West Indian pop music of the 1960s, accented on the second and fourth beats of a four-beat bar
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of ska1

First recorded in 1960–65; of obscure origin
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ska1

C20: origin unknown
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Example Sentences

I E ska tarry, Gk kta possess; Dak kta defer, tarry, used also as sign of future tense.

What I want is to drive every pony across the Wakon and up the Ska valley, where we'll find support.

Wakea Ska (White Lodge) said he would go, and the rest of us followed.

Ho som so gjilt kan po Langoleik spelo,Svanaug den vena, ska no væra mi!

Ska man' dros, or Scamander—a river of the Troad or plains of Troy.

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