An animal horn utilized by the Maroon people of Jamaica as a musical instrument. It was used by slaveholders to summon slaves to the canefields and by the Maroon army to communicate cryptic messages over great distances.
Origin
Borrowed from Jamaican Creole abeng, from Akan abɛŋ.
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