Meanings
alternative skibidi · alternative scibiddi · alternative skebidi · alternative skibiddi · alternative skibiddy
- InternetuncommonuncountableNon-lexical vocable used in scat singing.
bee baba bo ba baba bee baba skibidy ba boo
2016 February 27, @RyanCampbell_97, Twitter5 more examples
Stranger Than Paradise ... I put a spell on you- ooww, mumbo jumbo skibidy-doo, heheh ha. At the Circle West End.
1985 April 4, Pete Linehan, “Movie Clips”, in The GW Hatchet, volume 81, number 45, page 12I thought scat was a form of song, that improvised skibidy bop soo bob stuff. I could be wrong, it wouldn't be the first time.
1996 November 22, Jennifer D. Cohoon, “Funniest store names???”, in rec.humor (Usenet)If only they had some oil, instead all they have is Olive Oil arf arf arf arf skibidy dib dat
2006 August 5, Eduardo, “Costello calls for Howard's Appeasement of Israel to end”, in aus.culture.true-blue, Google GroupsFinaly found a notebook. Skibidy bop bop bop skibidy whoooa
2009 July 24, @chocolate76, TwitterWhen some lady walks by and goes skibidy bibdy and I have to try not bursting out laughing in her face 😂😂😂😂😂
2013 June 20, @chelydash36, Twitter
Origin
Perhaps originally popularised by the 1994 song "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)" by American musician Scatman John, although the original lyric was transcribed differently: "Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub". Which in turn was preceded by, and perhaps influenced by, skippity in doo-wop, as in The Five Satins' "Skippity Doo" (1959), and others such as Disney show tune Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah (1946).
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