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skiffle definition

☆ skif·fle (skif′əl)

noun

  1. a former primitive style of jazz played by bands using some nonstandard or homemade instruments
  2. a kind of up-tempo popular music like this, played as by jug bands, esp. in the United Kingdom in the 1950s, characterized by elements of jazz, blues, country, folk, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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