marooner
/məˈɹuːnɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Long before “Harder to Breathe” and “This Love” settled on radio stations ranging from Top 40 to rock to “alternative,” four of the five Marooners were in a band called Kara’s Flowers, recording albums as teenagers and doing a little touring."
- "It was a bizarre, unwieldy number that didn’t seem to make much sense stylistically – the Splenda-coated vanilla pop of the Marooners clashing with the too-cool disco-punk of Scotland’s Franz Ferdinand, which did ditto with the Texas-bred roots-rock of Los Lonely Boys and the hyper pop-rap of Black Eyed Peas and so on."
- "In the middle of interviewing Maroon 5 for E!, Ryan Seacrest asked Marooner Adam Levine to spit out the gum he was chewing."
- "The tight Marooners (augmented live by keyboardist/vocalist PJ Morton and the Austin-based Grooveline Horns) got plenty of room to rock out on “Lucky Strike,” with Levine kicking giant balls into the crowd, as well as “Wake Up Call” and the Prince cover “I Wanna Be Your Lover.”"
- "With the newest release, the band has made it very clear that the “Songs About Jane” era is over and done with. It may not be what diehard Marooners wanted or expected, but in the end it doesn't really matter."
- "Wearing shades of red (and maroon, of course) Filipino Marooners were more than ready to watch the iconic band Maroon 5 last January 29 for their Manila stop as part of their Asia 2025 tour."
Etymology
From maroon + -er.