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SKIFFLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does skiffle mean?
• SKIFFLE (noun)
The noun SKIFFLE has 1 sense:
1. a style of popular music in the 1950s; based on American folk music and played on guitars and improvised percussion instruments
Familiarity information: SKIFFLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A style of popular music in the 1950s; based on American folk music and played on guitars and improvised percussion instruments
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("skiffle" is a kind of...):
popular music; popular music genre (any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time))
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
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