style of popular music developed in England during the 1950s, deriving from hillbilly music and rock-'n'-roll, and played on a heterogeneous group of instruments, as guitar, washboard, ceramic jug, washtub, and kazoo
(in stone cutting) to knock off (excess stone) preparatory to dressing; knobble; skiffle
jazz style of the 1920s deriving from blues, ragtime, and folk music, played by bands made up of both standard and improvised instruments
to play a particular style of music [v SKIFFLED, SKIFFLES, SKIFFLING]