drummer
See also: Drummer
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ʌmə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
Noun
drummer (plural drummers)
- (music) One who plays the drums.
- A drumstick (the lower part of a chicken or turkey leg).
- Any of various fish of the family Kyphosidae, which make a drumming sound.
- 1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 67:
- Bullock's liver will catch drummer.
Synonyms
- (musician who plays drums): drummist, drumslade (obsolete), percussionist
- (salesman): hawker, peddler
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
one who plays the drums
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traveling salesman
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Usage notes
The term drummer is usually used for contemporary or popular musicians, whereas a classical musician is typically called a percussionist.
Etymology 2
Noun
drummer (plural drummers)
- (UK, slang) A housebreaker.
- 1999, Theatre Record (volume 19, issues 17-20)
- Bennett's central figure, Ray, is first and foremost a serial "drummer" (housebreaker in crim-speak), and only secondly a human being, […]
- 1999, Theatre Record (volume 19, issues 17-20)
- (dated, slang) A travelling salesman.
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- 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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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English drummer.
Pronunciation
Noun
drummer m (plural drummers, diminutive drummertje n)
Synonyms
Related terms
French
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
drummer m or f by sense (plural drummers, feminine drummeuse)
Further reading
- “drummer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English drummer.
Noun
drummer m (uncountable)
Declension
declension of drummer (singular only)
singular | ||
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m gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) drummer | drummerul |
genitive/dative | (unui) drummer | drummerului |
vocative | drummerule |
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