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Marooner (複数形 Marooners)

1. (slang) A member of the American pop rock band Maroon 5.
   • 2004 July 2, Dan Nailen, “Maroon 5 lands in a good place, but wants to keep moving”, in The Salt Lake Tribune, volume 268, number 80, page D11:

     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.

   • 2005 February 14, J. Freedom du Lac, “Most of the laughs unintentional”, in The Sacramento Bee, page D8:

     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.

   • 2006 February 10, Sharon Fink, “Crisis! Less than 30-million see ‘Idol’”, in St. Petersburg Times, volume 122, number 201, page 2B:

     In the middle of interviewing Maroon 5 for E!, Ryan Seacrest asked Marooner Adam Levine to spit out the gum he was chewing.

   • 2013 September 20, Michael Corcoran, “Maroon 5 and Kelly Clarkson had a fun crowd dancing”, in Austin 360 (Austin American-Statesman), page 2:

     The tight Marooners (augmented live by keyboardist/vocalist PJ Morton かつ 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.”