skiffle
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noun
A type of folk music, with jazz and blues influences, using homemade or improvised instruments.
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 .
verb
To play skiffle.
noun
Synonym of skiff (“light shower of rain or snow; light dusting of snow or ice (on ground, water, etc)”).
For quotations using this term, see Citations:skiffle.
This is when hardy divers such as American mergansers, goldeneyes, buffleheads, and scaup pay my lake a late staging visit, bobbing on the last patches of open water against the season's first skiffles of snow. Gradually the nights get [colder].
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6The 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 .
WiktionaryIn 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 ou
WiktionaryThey've been skiffling as we talked about in last chapter, and can now play a bit so their interests are broadening.
WiktionaryFor quotations using this term, see Citations:skiffle.
WiktionaryThis is when hardy divers such as American mergansers, goldeneyes, buffleheads, and scaup pay my lake a late staging visit, bobbing on the last patches of open water against the season's first skiffle
WiktionaryAs I am sitting at the stoplight under the maple and oak and cedar trees I see three tiny kids skiffling and shuffling and skittering and scuffling In the leaves
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