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(transitive, slang, Britain, military) To shell or attack (a target).
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Alternative form of beatboxing [The practice of using one’s mouth, lips, tongue, voice, etc. as a percussive instrument to create beats, rhythms and melodies for music, mainly hip hop.]
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Alternative form of beatmatch
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Alternative form of beatboxing [The practice of using one’s mouth, lips, tongue, voice, etc. as a percussive instrument to create beats, rhythms and melodies for music, mainly hip hop.]
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The practice of using one’s mouth, lips, tongue, voice, etc. as a percussive instrument to create beats, rhythms and melodies for music, mainly hip hop.
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(transitive) To drum about, over, or in celebration for (something).
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One who uses the specific vocal technique of belting.
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(slang) To ring a doorbell.
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Of the heart, etc.: to beat with an irregular rhythm.
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(slang) A musician who plays the fiddle.
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The noisy banging of pots and pans as a mock serenade to a newly married couple, or similar occasion.
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(video games) A plastic or metal pad used for playing dance games. The player provides input to the game by stepping on and off various panels on the pad.
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A hand gesture formed by closing the middle two fingers and the thumb and extending the index finger and pinkie so as to indicate devil horns.
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A juggling prop consisting of two hand sticks (dowels) and a third larger, hourglass-shaped stick.
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A drumming with the fingers or feet.
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(US, Canada) A children's prank in which a doorbell of a home is rung, and then the pranksters run away before the occupants of the home open the door.
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A speculative theory of the origins of spoken language, according to which all things have a vibrating natural resonance, echoed somehow in the earliest words of human beings.
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Alternative spelling of ding-dong [A sound made by a bell.]
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(countable, music) A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
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(transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
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A sound produced by hitting a drum repeatedly and rhythmically over short intervals.
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The sound of a beating drum.
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(UK, slang) A housebreaker.
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To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
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To play the fiddle or violin, particularly in a folk or country style.
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The movement or play of the fingers in executing something, especially in playing a musical instrument.
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A rhyme for young children consisting of a set of hand movements coordinated with a song or chant.
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The fiddle part generally carrying the melody.
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(drumming, transitive, intransitive) To play (notes as) a flam.
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To engage in headbanging, the vigorous movement of the head in time to music
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(ballet) A leap from one foot to the other in which one leg appears to be "thrown" in the direction of the movement.
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To produce percussive sounds of this kind.
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(music) A percussive exercise (one of many rudiments) which involves playing six even strokes in the order ‘right left right right left left’ or ‘left right left left right right’.
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(music) Of a musical instrument: played by striking or beating.
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(military) A drumbeat pattern for calling soldiers to gather.
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To place into new drums (barrels).
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A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other, now usually in the phrase dead ringer.
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The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
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The sound of a drum being continuously beaten.
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Alternative form of saltimbanque [Tumbler, street acrobat.]
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(informal) The art or skill of a drummer in popular music.
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(intransitive, dated) To beat on a drum.
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(Britain, colloquial) a public address system
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(military) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed; usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.
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The act of beating out a rhythm on a drum
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Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
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A drum that is beaten to rally and encourage troops or to signify that war is approaching.
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