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1. Maroon
   Maroon is British slang for a fool.
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2. Maroon
   Maroon is British slang for a fool.
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3. Maroon
   A pyrotechnic producing a very loud explosion.
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4. maroon
   [adj] - dark brownish to purplish red 2. [n] - an exploding firework used as a warning signal 3. [v] - leave stranded 4. [v] - isolate without resources
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5. maroon
   In the West Indies and Suriname, a freed or escaped African slave. Maroons were organized and armed by the Spanish in Jamaica in the late 17th century and early 18th century. They harried the...
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6. Maroon
   Ma·roon' noun [ Written also marroon .] [ French marron , abbrev. from Spanish cimarron wild, unruly, from cima the summit of a mountain; hence, negro cimarron a runaway negro that lives in the mountains.] In the West...
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7. Maroon
   Ma·roon' transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Marooned ; present participle & verbal noun Marooning .] [ See Maroon a fugitive slave.] To put (a person) ashore on a desolat...
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8. Maroon
   Ma·roon' (mȧ*rōn') adjective [ French marron chestnut-colored, from marron a large French chestnut, Italian marrone ; confer LGr. ma`raon . Confer Marron .] Having the color called maroon. See 4th
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9. Maroon
   Ma·roon' noun 1. A brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple. 2. An explosive shell. See Marron , 3.
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10. maroon
    brownish-red adjective of dark brownish to purplish red
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11. maroon
    noun an exploding firework used as a warning signal
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12. maroon
    noun a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color
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13. maroon
    noun a person who is stranded (as on an island); `when the tide came in I was a maroon out there`
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14. Maroon
    • (n.) An explosive shell. See Marron, 3. • (n.) In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains. • (n.) A brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple. • (a.) Having the color ...
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15. Maroon
    (from the article `Latin American art`) Runaway groups of slaves, called `maroons,` coalesced in the more inhospitable areas of tropical forest, such as interior lowland Colombia and inland ... Saramaccan emerged primarily among the enslaved and Maroon, or escaped slave, populations. It is thought to have arisen from contact b...
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16. Maroon
    An electrically fired thunderflash, set off in a steel tank fitted with a wire mesh top, to simulate an explosion. These are so loud that it is as well to inform the police in advance if one is to be set off (and at what time), so that they can be ready to deal with hundeds of reports of bombs going off!
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17. maroon
    maroon, term for a fugitive slave in the 17th and 18th cent. in the West Indies and Guiana, or for a descendant of such slaves. They were called marron by the French and cimarrón by the Spanish. Formerly much used in the West Indies and South America, the term later came to be used with particu...
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18. Maroon
    Maroons was a name given to escaped slaves in Jamaica and South America. When Jamaica was conquered by the English in 1655 about 1500 slaves retreated to the mountains, and, armed by the Spanish, continued to attack the British forces on the island during the late 17th and 18th centuries, leading a ...
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19. maroon
    In the West Indies and Suriname, a freed or escaped African slave. Maroons were organized and armed by the Spanish in Jamaica in the late 17th century and early 18th century. They harried the British with guerrilla tactics. A peace treaty was signed in 1739 between the Maroons and the British, grant...
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20. Maroon
    (Barenaked Ladies album) | Name = Maroon | Type = Artist = Barenaked Ladies | Cover = Barenaked_Ladies_-_Maroon.jpg | Released = September 12, 2000 | Recorded = April-June 2000 | Genre = Label = Reprise Records|Reprise | Producer = Last album = Stunt (album)|Stunt<br />(1998) | This...
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21. Maroon
    (people) Maroon child brought before a shaman, Suriname 1955 `Maroons` (from the word marronage or American/Spanish cimarrón: "fugitive, runaway", lit. "living on mountaintops"; from Spanish cima: "top, summit") were runaway slaves in the ...
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22. Maroon
    (rocket) A `maroon` is a type of rocket which makes a loud banging report (noise) and a bright flash. It is used as an alarm or warning, for example the British Royal National Lifeboat Institution uses these rockets to call the crew when the lifeboat needs to be launched. The RNLI`s use of th...
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23. Maroon
    (band) `Maroon` is a German Heavy Metal band based in Nordhausen. They were formed in 1998. History: Maroon released a demo cassette in 1999 entitled The Initiate although all four songs can be found on later releases. Their first CD, Captive in the Room of the Conspirator, was ...
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24. Maroon
    (Muslimgauze album) `Maroon` is a CD album by Muslimgauze. The first edition of 1000 copies was issued in a light brown digipak with a postcard insert, the first 500 copies of which were sealed with a Palestinian Authority stamp. The album was later re-issued in December 2002 with diff...
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