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Word entry · 7 letters

skiffle

Best crossword clue

"1950s folk-pop style"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈskɪf.əl/Part of speech nounSorted effiklsStarts with SEnds with E1 clues
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Definitions

  1. A folk-influenced music style played with simple or improvised instruments.

Word origin

From or related to Scots skiffle, from skiff (whence English skiff (“light rain, snow, etc”), which see for more). Related to skift (“light dusting of snow”).

Used in a sentence

  • The cats and the bats—and I hope you dig that one about the bats—played like mad in the backbeat 12, skiffling and skuffling , trying to get under the wire .
  • In Liverpool, the Quarrymen were one group of teenage Donegan admirers, but there were plenty of others: the Martinis, the Raving Texans, the Bluegenes and the Blackjacks—all skiffling their hearts out .
  • They've been skiffling as we talked about in last chapter, and can now play a bit so their interests are broadening.

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