Crossword clues for maraca
maraca
- Spanish music-maker
- Sort of rattle
- Singular shaker
- Shaking thing
- Salsa shaker
- Rumba-band instrument
- Rumba shaker
- Rumba band's rattle
- Rhythm section rattler
- Rhythm rattler
- Rhythm instrument usually played in pairs
- Percussion item that's shaken
- Percussion instrument made from a gourd
- Musical shaker
- Mexican rattler
- Mariachi band's shaker
- Latin rattle
- It's shaken on the bandstand
- Harmless rattler
- Hand-held rattler
- Hand-held percussion instrument
- Brazilian rattler
- Big rattle
- Beans + shell + handle
- Instrument often in pairs
- Pebble-filled gourd
- Rattle of a sort
- Latin-American rattler
- One of a percussive pair
- Rattle, of a sort
- Rhythm band instrument
- One of two in a rumba
- Staple of Caribbean music
- A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance
- Rattler commonly used in pairs
- Gourd used as a musical instrument
- Gourd-shaped rattle
- Turn over a vehicle in the morning — it rattles!
- Percussion instrument often used in calypso music
- Spanish rattle
- Rhythm instrument
- Shaken instrument
- Musical rattle
- Musical gourd
- Half a percussion pair
- Gourd-shaped instrument
- Gourd instrument
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gourd rattle used as a percussion instrument, 1813, from Portuguese, from Brazilian native name.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context musical instruments English) A Latin American percussion instrument consisting of a hollow-gourd rattle containing pebbles or beans and often played in pairs, as a rhythm instrument. 2 (context slang in the plural English) breasts
WordNet
n. a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance [syn: bones, castanets, clappers, finger cymbals]
Wikipedia
Maracas , sometimes called Rumba shakers, shac-shacs, and various other names, are rattles which appear in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music. Players hold them by their handles, usually in pairs, and shake them.
Maracas (Mbaracás), also known as Tamaracas, were rattles of divination, an oracle of the Brazilian Tupinamba Indians, found also with other Indian tribes ( Garifuna, Guarani), and on the Orinoco and in Florida. Rattles made from gourds ( Lagenaria) are being shaken by the natural grip, while the round calabash ( Crescentia) fruits are fitted to a handle. Human hair is sometimes fastened on the top, and a slit is cut in it to represent a mouth, through which their shamans (payes) made it utter its responses. A few pebbles are inserted to make it rattle, and it is crowned with the red feathers of the Goaraz. Every man had his maraca. It was used at their dances, and to heal the sick. Andean curanderos (healers) use maracas in their healing rites.
Modern maraca balls are also made of leather, wood, or plastic.
Maraca is a musical instrument. It can also refer to:
- Orlando "Maraca" Valle, Cuban flutist and conductor
- Maracas Valley in Trinidad and Tobago
:* Maracas Beach
:* Maracas-Saint Joseph
- Maracá Ecological Station in Brazil
- Maracá-Jipioca Ecological Station in Brazil
- Maraca (spider), a genus of tarantula
- A gay man in Spanish profanity. It's also used as a slang to refer to a prostitute, or a synonym of slut.
- Maraca (song), a song by Swedish artist Mohombi
"Maraca" is a song by Swedish-Congolese singer-songwriter Mohombi. The song was written by RedOne, Mohombi, Teddy Sky and Jimmy Joker, and it was produced by RedOne, Sky and Joker. It was released on September 2, 2011 as a digital download in Sweden. It has peaked to number fourteen on the Swedish Singles Chart.
Usage examples of "maraca".
The Yap Flower began to shake Tom like a maraca in time with the music.
I felt like a bean in a maraca, and with my sling, my black eye, and the blanket draped around me, I probably looked like a disaster refugee.
A clacking on the breeze, like the maracas the Mex girls played sometimes.
He danced round the room, wiggling his butt and waggling his body, waving imaginary maracas in the air.
Mabob took it in good spirit, rattling like a dozen maracas all through the compliments Leo paid it and rattling even harder when Leo rubbed it affectionately where the spiky fur was soft, making it still spikier.
He broke again, was lucky to sink a ball because of a rack loose enough that it sounded like maracas when he hit it, and was struck by the idea that a hundred years ago, bars were probably full of guys shooting pool after an evening of loading office furniture and paper onto box trucks.
I would like to requisition twenty percussive instruments, such as snare drums, kettledrums, tambourines, maracas, marimbas, rattles, and gongs.
They picked up the rattles, tambourines, and maracas and were making a racket that was enough to wake the dead.
I remember some Ragged Healer by the side of my bed, hopping from one bare foot to the other, and shaking maracas over me as I was falling asleep.
The fourteen tapes in his jacket pockets clicked like out-of-tune maracas as the December wind whipped all around him.
He recorded it first with himself singing at the piano, then overdubbed a double-tracked vocal, maracas, then drums and finally the bass line.
The samba dancer held a pair of brightly painted maracas in his slender hands.
But where the male samba dancer held maracas, she balanced a magnificently plumed parrot on her wrist.
I would like to requisition twenty percussive instruments, such as snare drums, kettledrums, tambourines, maracas, marimbas, rattles, and gongs.
Then he tried the maracas, which appeared to have been made from genuine gourds in a time-honored tradition—before having been scanned and stored in the replicator's memory for resurrection hundreds of years later.