From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishskiffleskif‧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
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skiffle• This 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. 