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Drummer
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 One who plays the drums.
"Kate is the lead guitarist, Luna is the drummer, and Izzy is the bass guitarist."
- 2 A housebreaker. UK, slang
"Bennett's central figure, Ray, is first and foremost a serial "drummer" (housebreaker in crim-speak), and only secondly a human being, […]"
- 3 someone who plays a drum wordnet
- 4 A drumstick (the lower part of a chicken or turkey leg).
- 5 A travelling salesman. dated, slang
"You know what life on the road is like — these poor salesmen when they don't sell some big account they been counting on why they go into one terrible slump they set there in the hotel room brooding over it and after a while they go out and meet some other drummer down in the lobby and start chewing the rag about all their troubles and then they get feeling so sorry they go across the street and commence drinking beer and about three hours later they come back to the room and write the house one of these here letters how rotten the product is."
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- 6 Any of various fish of the family Kyphosidae, which make a drumming sound.
"Bullock's liver will catch drummer."
Etymology
From drum + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix).
From drum (“house”) + -er.
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