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- noun Plural form of
maraca .
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Examples
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Rubber weapons don't weight much, so waving them around like maracas is actually pretty easy.
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Rubber weapons don't weight much, so waving them around like maracas is actually pretty easy.
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The little man persists in miscalling his maracas “Morocco”.
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Charo's "maracas" make Pam's proportions look average.
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The screen displays a ring of 6 circles, corresponding to the left and right sides and top, side and bottom - these are the directions to shake your 'maracas'.
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"maracas" (once you employ a bit of imagination) should have created a winner.
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He scooped it right out of my hand, cupped it, and shook it like maracas at his ear.
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It's a rattly festival of lifesaving compounds that — once the dreaded expiry date has arrived — no longer serve any legal function past perhaps so many makeshift maracas.
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I think Gene was clinking a two-penny piece against a brandy bottle, and I was playing maracas.
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Recent Classic works 550–800 A.D. include a small shell-and-jade skeleton figurine, like a medieval memento mori; and a surprising 8-inch tall whistle—a polychrome ceramic figure wearing an elaborate feathered headdress and holding two objects that look like maracas.
bilby commented on the word maracas
Is this a plural in Spanish?
September 4, 2008