Merikin

The English word “Merikin” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

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.

Aphetic form of American.

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