Definition of maraca in English:

maraca

noun məˈrakəməˈrɑkə

A percussion instrument in the form of a hollow gourd or gourd-shaped container filled with dried beans or similar objects and played, usually in pairs, by being shaken.
Example sentencesExamples
- Larger bands have trumpets and strings as well as extensive percussion sections in which maracas, guiros, and bongos are primary instruments.
- Some of today's Grenadian American calypso bands also use electric guitars, maracas, and steel drums.
- Throughout the song, we hear tinkling piano, barely-tapped chimes and sporadic maracas.
- Nearby, a pair of high-school girls shook wired maracas, precisely mimicking a pair of maraca-shaking characters on a video screen.
- One morning the youngest children shook maracas, banged small cymbals, and danced and skipped to international music in a room lined with colorful banners and maps.
- These three main patterns are amplified by turtle shells, claves, timbales, bongos, congas, maracas and tambourines.
- And despite a lack of any real visual element to their performance (apart from when the guitarist downs tools for a bit to hit some maracas with a stick) they are never dull.
- He jumps up on the riser, picks up a pair of maracas and gets them to double the tempo!
- In sharp contrast - and contrasts define the album - marimba, piano and maracas set up a sepia-tone backdrop for track two, ‘The Nurse’.
- He recalled that he'd flown the coup, aged 17, and learned to play the maracas, harmonica and guitar.
- We were given drums, triangles, maracas and tambourines to experiment with.
- Bonus points awarded to the band for having a guy named Iggi Sniff playing tambourine and maracas; double bonus points to Mr. Sniff for getting a gig playing tambourine and maracas.
- There have also been a number of instrument peripherals, from maracas and guitars to turntables.
- The band's sound was driven by the four-strong marimba/drum section, which was augmented by bass guitar, saxophone, maracas and two electric guitars - one rhythm, the other lead.
- The clack and tip tap of the dancers heeled shoes echoed in short rhythmic steps to the time of the varied instruments: seeded maracas and strings of hand made guitars, violins, flutes and drums.
- Its instruments include maracas, drums, and turtle shells.
- That zone now belongs to the hordes of zealots invited there personally to take up maracas and other such percussion.
- But any concert that features mock sadomasochism, skull-shaped maracas and an accordion player wearing tinted goggles is either the work of lunatics or of a band with a very healthy sense of irony indeed.
- The men in sombreros were miked and amped and they were shaking maracas and playing guitar.
- ‘White Moon’ is a slow piano paean, stinging with maracas, moonlight-sonata piano, and subtle drums.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Portuguese maracá, from Tupi.

Rhymes

alpaca, attacker, backer, clacker, claqueur, Dhaka, hacker, Hakka, lacquer, paca, packer, sifaka, slacker, smacker, stacker, tacker, tracker, whacker, yakka

Definition of maraca in US English:

maraca

nounməˈrɑkəməˈräkə

A percussion instrument in the form of a hollow gourd or gourd-shaped container filled with dried beans or similar objects and played, usually in pairs, by being shaken.
Example sentencesExamples
- These three main patterns are amplified by turtle shells, claves, timbales, bongos, congas, maracas and tambourines.
- ‘White Moon’ is a slow piano paean, stinging with maracas, moonlight-sonata piano, and subtle drums.
- He jumps up on the riser, picks up a pair of maracas and gets them to double the tempo!
- We were given drums, triangles, maracas and tambourines to experiment with.
- The men in sombreros were miked and amped and they were shaking maracas and playing guitar.
- Larger bands have trumpets and strings as well as extensive percussion sections in which maracas, guiros, and bongos are primary instruments.
- Throughout the song, we hear tinkling piano, barely-tapped chimes and sporadic maracas.
- There have also been a number of instrument peripherals, from maracas and guitars to turntables.
- The clack and tip tap of the dancers heeled shoes echoed in short rhythmic steps to the time of the varied instruments: seeded maracas and strings of hand made guitars, violins, flutes and drums.
- Some of today's Grenadian American calypso bands also use electric guitars, maracas, and steel drums.
- He recalled that he'd flown the coup, aged 17, and learned to play the maracas, harmonica and guitar.
- Bonus points awarded to the band for having a guy named Iggi Sniff playing tambourine and maracas; double bonus points to Mr. Sniff for getting a gig playing tambourine and maracas.
- One morning the youngest children shook maracas, banged small cymbals, and danced and skipped to international music in a room lined with colorful banners and maps.
- Nearby, a pair of high-school girls shook wired maracas, precisely mimicking a pair of maraca-shaking characters on a video screen.
- Its instruments include maracas, drums, and turtle shells.
- In sharp contrast - and contrasts define the album - marimba, piano and maracas set up a sepia-tone backdrop for track two, ‘The Nurse’.
- And despite a lack of any real visual element to their performance (apart from when the guitarist downs tools for a bit to hit some maracas with a stick) they are never dull.
- That zone now belongs to the hordes of zealots invited there personally to take up maracas and other such percussion.
- The band's sound was driven by the four-strong marimba/drum section, which was augmented by bass guitar, saxophone, maracas and two electric guitars - one rhythm, the other lead.
- But any concert that features mock sadomasochism, skull-shaped maracas and an accordion player wearing tinted goggles is either the work of lunatics or of a band with a very healthy sense of irony indeed.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Portuguese maracá, from Tupi.

词汇	maraca
释义	Definition of maraca in English: maraca noun məˈrakəməˈrɑkə A percussion instrument in the form of a hollow gourd or gourd-shaped container filled with dried beans or similar objects and played, usually in pairs, by being shaken. Example sentencesExamples Larger bands have trumpets and strings as well as extensive percussion sections in which maracas, guiros, and bongos are primary instruments. Some of today's Grenadian American calypso bands also use electric guitars, maracas, and steel drums. Throughout the song, we hear tinkling piano, barely-tapped chimes and sporadic maracas. Nearby, a pair of high-school girls shook wired maracas, precisely mimicking a pair of maraca-shaking characters on a video screen. One morning the youngest children shook maracas, banged small cymbals, and danced and skipped to international music in a room lined with colorful banners and maps. These three main patterns are amplified by turtle shells, claves, timbales, bongos, congas, maracas and tambourines. And despite a lack of any real visual element to their performance (apart from when the guitarist downs tools for a bit to hit some maracas with a stick) they are never dull. He jumps up on the riser, picks up a pair of maracas and gets them to double the tempo! In sharp contrast - and contrasts define the album - marimba, piano and maracas set up a sepia-tone backdrop for track two, ‘The Nurse’. He recalled that he'd flown the coup, aged 17, and learned to play the maracas, harmonica and guitar. We were given drums, triangles, maracas and tambourines to experiment with. Bonus points awarded to the band for having a guy named Iggi Sniff playing tambourine and maracas; double bonus points to Mr. Sniff for getting a gig playing tambourine and maracas. There have also been a number of instrument peripherals, from maracas and guitars to turntables. The band's sound was driven by the four-strong marimba/drum section, which was augmented by bass guitar, saxophone, maracas and two electric guitars - one rhythm, the other lead. The clack and tip tap of the dancers heeled shoes echoed in short rhythmic steps to the time of the varied instruments: seeded maracas and strings of hand made guitars, violins, flutes and drums. Its instruments include maracas, drums, and turtle shells. That zone now belongs to the hordes of zealots invited there personally to take up maracas and other such percussion. But any concert that features mock sadomasochism, skull-shaped maracas and an accordion player wearing tinted goggles is either the work of lunatics or of a band with a very healthy sense of irony indeed. The men in sombreros were miked and amped and they were shaking maracas and playing guitar. ‘White Moon’ is a slow piano paean, stinging with maracas, moonlight-sonata piano, and subtle drums. Origin Early 17th century: from Portuguese maracá, from Tupi. Rhymes alpaca, attacker, backer, clacker, claqueur, Dhaka, hacker, Hakka, lacquer, paca, packer, sifaka, slacker, smacker, stacker, tacker, tracker, whacker, yakka Definition of maraca in US English: maraca nounməˈrɑkəməˈräkə A percussion instrument in the form of a hollow gourd or gourd-shaped container filled with dried beans or similar objects and played, usually in pairs, by being shaken. Example sentencesExamples These three main patterns are amplified by turtle shells, claves, timbales, bongos, congas, maracas and tambourines. ‘White Moon’ is a slow piano paean, stinging with maracas, moonlight-sonata piano, and subtle drums. He jumps up on the riser, picks up a pair of maracas and gets them to double the tempo! We were given drums, triangles, maracas and tambourines to experiment with. The men in sombreros were miked and amped and they were shaking maracas and playing guitar. Larger bands have trumpets and strings as well as extensive percussion sections in which maracas, guiros, and bongos are primary instruments. Throughout the song, we hear tinkling piano, barely-tapped chimes and sporadic maracas. There have also been a number of instrument peripherals, from maracas and guitars to turntables. The clack and tip tap of the dancers heeled shoes echoed in short rhythmic steps to the time of the varied instruments: seeded maracas and strings of hand made guitars, violins, flutes and drums. Some of today's Grenadian American calypso bands also use electric guitars, maracas, and steel drums. He recalled that he'd flown the coup, aged 17, and learned to play the maracas, harmonica and guitar. Bonus points awarded to the band for having a guy named Iggi Sniff playing tambourine and maracas; double bonus points to Mr. Sniff for getting a gig playing tambourine and maracas. One morning the youngest children shook maracas, banged small cymbals, and danced and skipped to international music in a room lined with colorful banners and maps. Nearby, a pair of high-school girls shook wired maracas, precisely mimicking a pair of maraca-shaking characters on a video screen. Its instruments include maracas, drums, and turtle shells. In sharp contrast - and contrasts define the album - marimba, piano and maracas set up a sepia-tone backdrop for track two, ‘The Nurse’. And despite a lack of any real visual element to their performance (apart from when the guitarist downs tools for a bit to hit some maracas with a stick) they are never dull. That zone now belongs to the hordes of zealots invited there personally to take up maracas and other such percussion. The band's sound was driven by the four-strong marimba/drum section, which was augmented by bass guitar, saxophone, maracas and two electric guitars - one rhythm, the other lead. But any concert that features mock sadomasochism, skull-shaped maracas and an accordion player wearing tinted goggles is either the work of lunatics or of a band with a very healthy sense of irony indeed. Origin Early 17th century: from Portuguese maracá, from Tupi.
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