A cajón is a box-shaped percussion instrument originally from Peru, played by slapping the front or rear faces with the hands, fingers, or sometimes implements such as brushes, mallets, or sticks. Cajones are primarily played in Afro-Peruvian music, but has made its way into flamenco as well.

What does the word cajon mean in English?

1 Southwest : a narrow gorge with vertical sides : box canyon. 2 [Spanish] : a Spanish and Spanish-American method of construction in which walls are made of mud rammed into a narrow boxlike frame and allowed to harden.

Is cajon a word?

Yes, cajon is in the scrabble dictionary.