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ska
[ skah ]
noun
- 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
- a type of West Indian pop music of the 1960s, accented on the second and fourth beats of a four-beat bar
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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.
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What I want is to drive every pony across the Wakon and up the Ska valley, where we'll find support.
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Wakea Ska (White Lodge) said he would go, and the rest of us followed.
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Ho som so gjilt kan po Langoleik spelo,Svanaug den vena, ska no væra mi!
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Ska man' dros, or Scamander—a river of the Troad or plains of Troy.
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