Usually means: Jamaican music blending jazz, calypso.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word ska:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. ska: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ska: Merriam-Webster
  3. ska: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ska: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ska: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Ska, ska: Wordnik
  7. SKA, ska: Wiktionary
  8. ska: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ska: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ska: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. ska: Dictionary.com
  12. ska: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. SKA (disambiguation), Ska: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. ska: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SKA: Acronym Finder
  2. SKA: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ska: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (music) 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:  (astronomy) Initialism of Square Kilometer Array.

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