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skiffle

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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skif·fle /ˈskɪfəl/ noun [uncountable] especially British English  APMa type of popular music played in the 1950s and often using instruments made by the musicians themselves 噪音爵士乐,史基佛音乐〔20 世纪 50 年代的一种流行音乐,其乐器常由演奏者自制〕
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skiffleThis is like releasing a skiffle compilation without Lonnie Donegan.It was a skiffle group basically.The golden weddings and stories of handbell ringers and emergent skiffle groups were getting a bit tame, by comparison.It was coming towards the tail-end of skiffle then, and all my mates had guitars.
skif·fle nounChineseSyllable
in played of the a popular music type Corpus


skiffle
skiffle /ˈskɪfəl/ noun [uncountable] especially British English
a type of popular music played in the 1950s and often using instruments made by the musicians themselves


skif·fleBrE /ˈskɪfl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈskɪfl/ 🔊 nouna type of music popular in the 1950s, that was a mixture of jazz and folk music 即兴摇滚乐(流行于 20 世纪 50 年代,结合了爵士乐和民间音乐)