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drumless

drumless adjective: without a drum.

Adjective

drumless (not comparable)

  1. Without a drum.
    • These boilers use small tubes and in many cases are drumless.1948, Edgar MacNaughton, Elementary steam power engineering
    • Ray and his diminished Camino cluster, bass-less and drum-less, nonetheless put on a fine show.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 262

Origin of drumless

From drum + -less.

Questions about drumless

What does drumless mean?
Drumless means without a drum.
What part of speech is drumless?
Drumless is an adjective.

Words near drumless in the dictionary

  1. Drumhellers
  2. Drumian
  3. Druminnin
  4. drumkit
  5. drumkits
  6. drumless
  7. drumlier
  8. drumliest
  9. drumlike
  10. drumlin
  11. drumline

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