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drumming

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • //ˈdɹʌmɪŋ//

The act of beating a drum.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of beating a drum.

  2. 2

    A noise resembling that of a drum being beaten.

  3. 3

    In many species of catfish, the sound produced by contraction of specialized sonic muscles with subsequent reverberation through the swim bladder.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of drumpresent participle and gerund of drum

Forms

plural
drummings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).