Skiffle meaning

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Jazz, folk, or country music played by performers who use unconventional instruments, such as kazoos, washboards, or jugs, sometimes in combination with conventional instruments.
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A former primitive style of jazz played by bands using some nonstandard or homemade instruments.
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A kind of up-tempo popular music played as by jug bands, esp. in the United Kingdom in the 1950s, characterized by elements of jazz, blues, country, folk, etc.
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A type of folk music, with jazz and blues influences, using homemade or improvised instruments.
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Origin of skiffle

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Skiffle Sentence Examples

  • When the skiffle group craze hit Britain in the 1950s he learned a few chords on a second-hand guitar he bought from a classmate.

  • He plays the double bass in the skiffle band The Dodge Brothers.

  • The music will be contemporary, ragtime and jazz style with a skiffle / street band sound.

  • He could be seen playing skiffle in pubs around town and even made several appearances at the legendary 2I's coffee bar in Soho.

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