drummer

plural drummers

1. entertainmentOne who plays the drums.

   Kate is the lead guitarist, Luna is the drummer, and Izzy is the bass guitarist.

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   The Eric Revis Trio, featuring the pianist Kris Davis, the bassist Eric Revis and the drummer Gerald Cleaver performing at the Jazz Gallery.Credit...

   2015 June 18, Nate Chinen, “Review: Eric Revis Trio Lets the Music Lead the Way at the Jazz Gallery”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022

   Synonyms: drummist, drumslade, percussionist, stickman

2. A drumstick (the lower part of a chicken or turkey leg).
3. Any of various fish of the family Kyphosidae, which make a drumming sound.

   Bullock's liver will catch drummer.

   1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 67

plural drummers

1. UKslangA housebreaker.

   Bennett's central figure, Ray, is first and foremost a serial "drummer" (housebreaker in crim-speak), and only secondly a human being, […]

   1999, Theatre Record, volume 19, numbers 17-20

2. datedslangA travelling salesman.

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   You know what life on the road is like — these poor salesmen when they don't sell some big account they been counting on why they go into one terrible slump they set there in the hotel room brooding over it and after a while they go out and meet some other drummer down in the lobby and start chewing the rag about all their troubles and then they get feeling so sorry they go across the street and commence drinking beer and about three hours later they come back to the room and write the house one of these here letters how rotten the product is.

   1953, Richard Bissell, chapter 14, in 7½ Cents, Atlantic-Little, Brown, page 154

plural Drummers

1. A surname.