Usually means: Generate interest or support actively.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. drum up: Merriam-Webster
  2. drum up: Collins English Dictionary
  3. drum up: Vocabulary.com
  4. drum-up: Wordnik
  5. drum up: Wiktionary
  6. drum up: Dictionary.com
  7. drum up: Rhymezone
  8. drum up: FreeDictionary.org
  9. drum up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. drum up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. drum up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drum up: Legal dictionary

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  1. drum up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drum up: Medical dictionary

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  1. drum up: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drum up, drum up, drum up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (drum up)

verb:  (idiomatic) To generate or encourage; to campaign for.
verb:  (transitive, UK, slang) To prepare food or drink with improvised implements, e.g. while camping; especially, to make tea in something other than a tea kettle.

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