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drumsticks

drumsticks is the plural 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

Questions about drumsticks

What is drumsticks the plural of?
Drumsticks is the plural of drumstick.

Words near drumsticks in the dictionary

  1. drumster
  2. drumsters
  3. drumstick
  4. drumstick tree
  5. drumstick trees
  6. drumsticks
  7. Drumvaich
  8. drumwork
  9. Druna
  10. Drunasky
  11. drunchies

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