ska
/skɑː/
ska noun: a style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s, combining elements of Caribbean calypso and mento with American jazz and rhythm and blues; it was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.
Noun (1)
ska (uncountable)
- A style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s, combining elements of Caribbean calypso and mento with American jazz and rhythm and blues; it was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.
- Musical Hairsplitting: The act of classifying music and musicians into pathologically picayune categories: “The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.”1991, Douglas Coupland, “Eat Your Parents”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 85
- Everyone who loves ska has their own story to tell—the first time they heard the Specials back in the '70s, the first time they danced onstage at a Toasters show in the '80s, the first time they saw the Skatalites perform in the '90s.2014, Heather Augustyn, “Preface”, in Ska: An Oral History, McFarland, →ISBN, page 3
Noun (2) capitalized: SKA
SKA (plural SKAs)
- Initialism of Square Kilometer Array.
ska meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
ska in Hindi
- स्का, एस. के. ए
ska in Tamil
- ஸ்கா
ska in Marathi
- स्का
ska in Bengali
- স্কা
More languagesFewer languages
- ska in Telugu
- స్కా, స్క
- ska in Malayalam
- സ്കാ, സ്ക
- ska in Kannada
- ಸ್ಕಾ, ಸ್ಕ್ಯಾ, ಸ್ಕ
- ska in Punjabi
- ਸਕਾ, ਸ੍ਕਾ
- ska in Gujarati
- સ્કા
- ska in Odia
- ସ୍କା
- ska in Nepali
- स्का, स्क्या
Examples of ska in a sentence
- Thus, ska punk managed to revitalize punk through the popularization of a more unusual genre.
- Later came an electropunk version of Hank Williams's Lovesick Blues punctuated with ska horns.
- The birth of skacid — acid ska music — is imminent.
Forms of ska
| plural | SKAs |
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Origin of ska
Origin uncertain. Probably imitative of the crisp guitar sound; other suggestions include a contraction of “skavoovie” (a word invented and used by musician Cluett Johnson), or of “speed polka”.
Words formed from ska
Phrases with ska
Words that rhyme with ska
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- Moskva
- Nansha
- rah
- shikar
- ah
- aha
- alhamdulillah
- Amapá
- Benoit
- Bogotá
- fa
- galah
- goombah
- huzzah
- inshallah
- Jah
- la
- lah-di-dah
- ma
- moire
- mudra
- ménage à trois
- na
- omertà
- ooh la la
- pa
- schwa
- shah
- Shangri-La
- sis boom bah
- ta
- wah
- Xisha
- 'za
- allah
- ar
- arthra
- Aymara
- baa
- bah
- Bogota
- boyar
- bra
- cha
- cha cha cha
- chamar
- che sara sara
- chicken paw
Questions about ska
- What does ska mean?
- Ska means a style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s, combining elements of Caribbean calypso and mento with American jazz and rhythm and blues; it was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.
- What is ska in Hindi?
- Ska in Hindi is स्का, एस. के. ए. See Ska meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is ska?
- Ska is a noun.
- How do you pronounce ska?
- Ska is pronounced /skɑː/.
- What is the plural of ska?
- The plural of ska is SKAs.
Words near ska in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ska (page history and authors); SKA (page history and authors); ska (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ska (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ska (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ska (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ska (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ska (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ska (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ska (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ska (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ska (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ska (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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