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ska
[ skah ]
noun
- a modern style of vocalized Jamaican popular music, which emerged in the 1950s as a blend of African-Jamaican folk music, calypso, and American rhythm and blues, notable for its shuffling, scratchlike tempo and jazzlike horn riffs on the offbeat.
ska
/ skɑː /
noun
- a type of West Indian pop music of the 1960s, accented on the second and fourth beats of a four-beat bar
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Example Sentences
Quite apart from their role as precursors for the SKA, both telescopes have been hugely successful in their own right, making major discoveries in their first years of operation.
I E ska tarry, Gk kta possess; Dak kta defer, tarry, used also as sign of future tense.
What I want is to drive every pony across the Wakon and up the Ska valley, where we'll find support.
Wakea Ska (White Lodge) said he would go, and the rest of us followed.
Ho som so gjilt kan po Langoleik spelo,Svanaug den vena, ska no væra mi!
Ska man' dros, or Scamander—a river of the Troad or plains of Troy.
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