Usually means: Percussion instruments filled with beads.
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  1. maracas: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. maracas: Merriam-Webster
  3. maracas: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. maracas: Collins English Dictionary
  5. maracas: Vocabulary.com
  6. Maracas, maracas: Wordnik
  7. maracas: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Maracas: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. maracas: Wiktionary
  10. maracas: Dictionary.com
  11. Maracas: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. maracas: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Maracas: Encyclopedia

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  1. maracas: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. maracas: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. maracas: The Folk File
  3. MARACAS: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See maraca as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (music) A Latin American percussion instrument consisting of a hollow-gourd rattle containing pebbles or beans and often played in pairs, as a rhythm instrument.
noun:  (slang, in the plural) breasts
▸ Also see maraca


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