{i} popular rhythmic dance music originating in Jamaica (combines elements of blues & jazz with Caribbean rhythms)
A brisk form of Jamaican-born rock derived from reggae and rock energy It was popularized in the early 1980s by British black-and-white multiracial bands that formed a lighter faction of the punk movement
Popular music originating in Jamaica in the 1960s, having elements of rhythm and blues, jazz, and calypso and marked by a fast tempo and a strongly accented offbeat. a kind of popular music from the West Indies with a fast regular beat, similar to reggae
[ 'skä ] (noun.) 1969. Origin uncertain. Probably imitative of the crisp guitar soundOED 3rd (online) edition; other suggestions include a contraction of American slang skavoovie, or of speed polka.