Usually means: Percussive instrument with sharp attack.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word snare drum:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. snare drum: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. snare drum: Merriam-Webster
  3. snare drum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. snare drum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. snare drum: Collins English Dictionary
  6. snare drum: Vocabulary.com
  7. snare drum: Wordnik
  8. snare drum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Snare drum: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. snare drum: Wiktionary
  11. snare drum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. snare drum: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. snare drum: Dictionary.com
  14. Snare Drum, Snare drum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. snare drum: Rhymezone
  16. snare drum: FreeDictionary.org
  17. snare drum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. snare drum: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Snare Drum: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snare drum: Encyclopedia

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snare drum: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See snare_drums as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (snare drum)

noun:  A tubular drum with skins stretched over the top and bottom, and having a set of chains that can be applied to the bottom skin to create a rattling sound.

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