ska
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.
Origin of ska
1- Compare reggae, rock steady.
Words Nearby ska
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How to use ska in a sentence
I E ska tarry, Gk kta possess; Dak kta defer, tarry, used also as sign of future tense.
The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages | Andrew Woods WilliamsonWhat I want is to drive every pony across the Wakon and up the ska valley, where we'll find support.
Under Fire | Charles KingWakea ska (White Lodge) said he would go, and the rest of us followed.
The Spirit Lake Massacre | Thomas TeakleHo som so gjilt kan po Langoleik spelo,Svanaug den vena, ska no væra mi!
Strife and Peace | Fredrika Bremerska man' dros, or Scamander—a river of the Troad or plains of Troy.
Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca | Homer
British Dictionary definitions for ska
/ (skɑː) /
a type of West Indian pop music of the 1960s, accented on the second and fourth beats of a four-beat bar
Origin of ska
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