Maroon facts for kids

The word Maroon can have the following meanings:

• Maroon (colour), a dark red
• Maroon (people), runaway slaves in the Caribbean
• Marooning, the act of leaving someone on a deserted island
• Maroon (rocket), a loud rocket used for signaling
• Chicago Maroon, an independent student newspaper of the University of Chicago
• Colgate Maroon-News newspaper of Colgate University and the oldest university weekly newspaper in America
• Saint Maroon
• Marooned (Red Dwarf episode), an episode of Red Dwarf

In sports:

• The Queensland Maroons, officially called Queensland State of Origin Team, a representative rugby league team that plays Rugby League State of Origin
• The Montreal Maroons were a professional ice hockey team, in existence from 1924 to 1938
• The Toledo Maroons were a National Football League team, in existence from 1922 to 1923
• The Kenosha Maroons were a National Football League team, in existence in 1924
• The Fighting Maroons, the athletic teams of the University of the Philippines
• The Chicago Maroons, the athletic teams of the University of Chicago
• The Maroons, all the athletic teams of Roanoke College
• The Maroons, all the athletic teams of Moline High School

In the military:

• The Maroon Beret is the internationally recognised symbol for elite airborne forces.

In music:

• Maroon (album), a 2000 album by the Barenaked Ladies
• Maroon (band), a German vegan and straight edge band
• Maroon 5, a United States pop band
• "Maroon", the adopted name Russell Shoatz, a former Black Liberation Army member
• Maroons (Hip hop group) from Oakland, California (Lateef & Chief Xcel)

In art:

• Maroon, Bugs Bunny's civil wording for Moron

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  The word "maroon" derives from the French marron, meaning chestnut.