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Merikin

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Etymology

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Aphetic form of American.

Noun

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Merikin (plural Merikins)

  1. (historical) One of the African-American refugees of the War of 1812: freed black slaves who fought for the British against the USA in the Corps of Colonial Marines and then, after post-war service in Bermuda, were established as a community in the south of Trinidad in 1815–16.

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