drummer
See also: Drummer
English
Noun
drummer (plural drummers)
- (music) One who plays the drums.
- (obsolete) travelling salesman
- 1953, Richard Bissell, chapter 14, in 7½ Cents, page 154:
- 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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- A drumstick (the lower part of a chicken or turkey leg).
Synonyms
- (musician who plays drums): percussionist, drummist
- (salesman): hawker, peddler
Derived terms
Translations
one who plays the drums
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traveling salesman
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Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: drum‧mer
- Rhymes: -ʏmər
Synonyms
- percussionist m
- slagwerker m
- trommelaar m
French
Alternative forms
- drummeur
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dʁœ.mœʁ/
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Synonyms
Further reading
- “drummer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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