Usually means: Drumming pattern alternating sticks rhythmically.
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  1. paradiddle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. paradiddle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. paradiddle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. paradiddle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. paradiddle: Vocabulary.com
  6. paradiddle: Wordnik
  7. paradiddle: Wiktionary
  8. paradiddle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. paradiddle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. paradiddle: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. paradiddle: Dictionary.com
  12. Paradiddle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  14. paradiddle: Free Dictionary
  15. paradiddle: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  17. paradiddle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. paradiddle: Encyclopedia

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  1. paradiddle: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. Paradiddle: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (paradiddle)

noun:  (music) A percussive exercise (one of 26 drum rudiments per the National Association of Rudimental Drummers or one of 40 per the Percussive Arts Society) which involves playing four even strokes in the order ‘right left right right’ or ‘left right left left.’
verb:  To produce percussive sounds of this kind.

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