Word.ws English Dictionary

drum out

drum out verb: to remove, especially unfairly, from an organization or position of responsibility.

Verb

drum out (third-person singular simple present drums out, present participle drumming out, simple past and past participle drummed out)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To remove, especially unfairly, from an organization or position of responsibility.
    • I was drummed out of the job by slanderous lies.
    • The partyship was brought to bear upon him; he was told that he must be either in or out of the party; that he must no longer be "a private in the grand army of freedom," but that he must take his proper position or be drummed out of it; and he succumbed and accepted office.1877, Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada, page 1301

Forms of drum out

third-person singular presentdrums out
present participledrumming out
past participledrummed out
pastdrummed out

Questions about drum out

What does drum out mean?
Drum out means to remove, especially unfairly, from an organization or position of responsibility.
What part of speech is drum out?
Drum out is a verb.
What is the past tense of drum out?
The past tense of drum out is drummed out.

Words near drum out in the dictionary

  1. drum major
  2. drum majorette
  3. drum majorettes
  4. drum majors
  5. drum notation
  6. drum out
  7. drum roll
  8. drum rolls
  9. drum set
  10. drum sets
  11. drum stick

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: drum out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “drum out.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/drum_out. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.