Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Latin-American percussion instrument consisting of a hollow-gourd rattle containing pebbles or beans and often played in pairs.
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- noun music A
Latin American percussion instrument consisting of ahollow -gourd rattle containingpebbles orbeans and oftenplayed inpairs , as arhythm instrument. - noun slang, in the plural
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- noun a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow gourd containing pebbles or beans; often played in pairs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Blind cricket uses a bearings-filled plastic ball that rattles like a maraca, allowing players to locate it as it bounces on the ground.
Pakistan's Cricketers Rule the Blind Game Nicolas Brulliard 2011
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This trio of young ones from Melbourne, Australia makes a primitive, minimalist form of noise rock (vocalist Jonnine Standish's percussion instrument is a single maraca and a floor tom).
Boing Boing 2009
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Recently on Offworld, One More Go columnist Margaret Robertson claims Sega owe her £400 for all the money she's sunk in to Sega's maraca-based rhythm game Samba De Amigo over the years, only to get something always broken in return.
Boing Boing 2009
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Of special note: rhythm was provided by a maraca fashioned from Advil capsules rattling against the inside a diaphragm carrying case.
James Scarborough: "Stay Free© or Die: The Menstrual Hut Project," International City Bungalow Gallery, Long Beach, California James Scarborough 2011
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Of special note: rhythm was provided by a maraca fashioned from Advil capsules rattling against the inside a diaphragm carrying case.
James Scarborough: "Stay Free© or Die: The Menstrual Hut Project," International City Bungalow Gallery, Long Beach, California James Scarborough 2011
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Awl nite ai dreamt dat ai wuz uh member ob an awl maraca band.
I tried.. I gibbed it - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Actually, I was pretty disturbed when it came to the butterflies in my stomach region doing a maraca rumba.
Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010
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Give them a maraca, a rubber band and a Swiss army knife, and the group will give you a dance-floor hit.
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Give them a maraca, a rubber band and a Swiss army knife, and the group will give you a dance-floor hit.
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Calling him Barack --- it would not be long until other candidates 'advisers and their media friends would be making freudian slips calling him maraca --- in an obvious attempt to cause confusion about whether he is some sort of central american drug kingpin.
Pro-Hillary Third Party Group Preparing Anti-Obama Web Site? 2009
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