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maracas
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
maracas
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ However, no amount of maracas and twangy guitars can eliminate the sense of having been shortchanged.
▪ Not only did he bed Pat last night but some one is about to burst in and catch her rattling his maracas.
▪ Try penny whistles, maracas, guitars, recorders, bongo drums and the piano for melodious fun.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
maracas

see maraca.

Wiktionary
maracas

n. (plural of maraca English)

Wikipedia
Maracás

Maracás is a municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil.

Usage examples of "maracas".

They picked up the rattles, tambourines, and maracas and were making a racket that was enough to wake the dead.

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.

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.

Then he tried the maracas, which appeared to have been made from genuine gourds in a time-honored traditionbefore having been scanned and stored in the replicator's memory for resurrection hundreds of years later.