drummer
See also: Drummer
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom drum + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix).
Noun
editdrummer (plural drummers)
- (music) One who plays the drums.
- Kate is the lead guitarist, Luna is the drummer, and Izzy is the bass guitarist.
- 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
editThe 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
editTranslations
editone who plays the drums
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traveling salesman
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Etymology 2
editNoun
editdrummer (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
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English drummer.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdrummer m (plural drummers, diminutive drummertje n)
Synonyms
editRelated terms
editFrench
editAlternative forms
editPronunciation
editNoun
editdrummer 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
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English drummer.
Noun
editdrummer m (uncountable)
Declension
editsingular only | indefinite | definite |
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nominative-accusative | drummer | drummerul |
genitive-dative | drummer | drummerului |
vocative | drummerule |
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