drummers

Noun (1)

drummer (plural drummers)

1. One who plays the drums.
   • Kate is the lead guitarist, Luna is the drummer, and Izzy is the bass guitarist.

   Synonyms:

   drummist, drumslade, percussionist, stickman

2. A drumstick (the lower part of a chicken or turkey leg).
3. Any of various fish of the family Kyphosidae, which make a drumming sound.
   • Bullock's liver will catch drummer.1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 67

Noun (2)

drummer (plural drummers)

1. (UK, slang) A housebreaker.
   • Bennett's central figure, Ray, is first and foremost a serial "drummer" (housebreaker in crim-speak), and only secondly a human being, […]1999, Theatre Record, volume 19, numbers 17-20
2. (dated, slang) A travelling salesman.
   • 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...1953, Richard Bissell, chapter 14, in 7½ Cents, Atlantic-Little, Brown, page 154

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