Usually means: Latin percussion instrument with ridges.
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  1. guiro: Merriam-Webster
  2. guiro: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. guiro: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. guiro: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Guiro: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  6. guiro: Wiktionary
  7. guiro: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. guiro: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. guiro: Dictionary.com
  10. Guiro: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. guiro: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (guiro)

noun:  Synonym of sekere
noun:  (music) A musical instrument, a shaker, made of a hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side, and played by rubbing a stick or scraper ("pua") along the notches to produce a ratchet-like sound.
noun:  (music) A genre of traditional Cuban music, used in santería rituals.

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