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drum roll |
drum sander |
drum up |
drum-like |
drum-shaped |
drumbeat
| drumbeater
| drumfire
| drumfish
| drumhead
| drumhead court-martial
drumbeat
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun drumbeat has 3 senses
- drumbeat(n = noun.event) rataplan, rub-a-dub - the sound made by beating a drum; Array is a kind of sound
- drumbeat(n = noun.communication) Array - (military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown; Array is a kind of sign, signal, signaling
- drumbeat(n = noun.act) Array - a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause; "the warmongers kept up their drumbeat on Iraq" is a kind of advocacy, protagonism
has particulars: tattoo
THESAURUS
drumbeat
barrage, beat, beating, drum, drum music, drumfire, drumming, flutter, palpitation, paradiddle, patter, pitapat, pitter-patter, pound, pounding, pulsation, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, roll, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, spatter, splutter, sputter, staccato, tat-tat, tattoo, throb, throbbing, thrum, thumping, tom-tom
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