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drum stick

drum stick is the alternative spelling of drumstick.

Meaning of drumstick

Noun

drumstick (plural drumsticks)

  1. A stick used to play drums.
  2. The second joint of the legbone of a chicken or other fowl, especially as an item of food.
    Synonyms:
    chicken leg, drummer
  3. (Myanmar, South-Asia) The moringa or drumstick tree, Moringa oleifera, especially its slender, cylindrical pods.
    • She could imagine the taste of the tender drumstick seeds on her tongue.2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee (fiction), translation of original in Assamese
  4. (in plural, slang) A person's leg.
    • At a given signal, from the boss of the hack, who stands door in hand, the young lady gathers her clothes well up her drumsticks, and would you believe, two steps or springs only, like those of a kangaroo, take her into the house.1855, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Nature and Human Nature, page 235

Forms of drum stick

pluraldrum sticks

Questions about drum stick

What is drum stick the alternative spelling of?
Drum stick is the alternative spelling of drumstick.

Words near drum stick in the dictionary

  1. drum out
  2. drum roll
  3. drum rolls
  4. drum set
  5. drum sets
  6. drum stick
  7. drum sticks
  8. drum talk
  9. drum tower
  10. drum towers
  11. drum up

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