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Dictionary definition for: Drum
1. (n) a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end
2. (v) make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield" "The drums beat all night"
3. (n) the sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes"
4. (v) play a percussion instrument
5. (n) a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
6. (v) study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"
7. (n) a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids
8. (n) a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes
9. (n) small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
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