drummer
See also: Drummer
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
drum + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix)
Noun edit
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.
Usage notes edit
The term drummer is usually used for contemporary or popular musicians, whereas a classical musician is typically called a percussionist.
Synonyms edit
- (musician who plays drums): drummist, drumslade (obsolete), percussionist, stickman
- (salesman): hawker, peddler
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
one who plays the drums
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traveling salesman
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Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
drummer (plural drummers)
- (UK, slang) A housebreaker.
- 1999, Theatre Record, volume 19, numbers 17-20:
- Bennett's central figure, Ray, is first and foremost a serial "drummer" (housebreaker in crim-speak), and only secondly a human being, […]
- (dated, slang) A travelling salesman.
- 1953, Richard Bissell, chapter 14, in 7½ Cents[1], Atlantic-Little, Brown, 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.
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English drummer.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
drummer m (plural drummers, diminutive drummertje n)
Synonyms edit
Related terms edit
French edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
drummer m or f by sense (plural drummers, feminine drummeuse)
Further reading edit
- “drummer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English drummer.
Noun edit
drummer m (uncountable)
Declension edit
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 |