chac-chacn.
A percussion instrument used by West Indians.
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1870 C. Kingsley in Good Words May 317 The Indian shot..which the Negro grows..because its hard seed put into a bladder furnishes him with that detestable musical instrument the chac-chac wherewith he accompanies nightly that equally detestable instrument the tom-tom.
1905 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 510 An African revivalist..who should attempt to arouse the ecstasies of a West Indian meeting with no more elaborate orchestra than a bull~roarer and a shak-shak.
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