drummer

[ druhm-er ]

noun

1. a person who plays a drum.
2. a commercial traveler or traveling sales representative.

drummer

/ ˈdrʌmə /

noun

1. a person who plays a drum or set of drums
2. a salesman, esp a travelling salesman
3. slang.
   the slowest shearer in a team

Word History and Origins

Origin of drummer¹

First recorded in 1565–75; drum ¹ + -er ¹

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. march to a different drummer, to be motivated by a different set of values than the average person.

More idioms and phrases containing drummer

see march to a different beat (drummer) .

Example Sentences

Everybody wrote compositions except for our drummer Mickey Roker.

From Washington Post

If you look at the size of his kit, it’s ludicrous compared with what most drummers use these days.

From Washington Post

She didn’t know that we were out of practice or that half of the drummers were trained in other instruments.

From Science News

After performing with a famed drummer and true icon in the music industry just two years back on The Tonight Show, some social media users are finding it hard to believe that DaBaby doesn’t know who Questlove is.

From Essence.com

Questlove, the Roots drummer who recently directed the music documentary “Summer of Soul,” about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, shared a list on Instagram of artists he would have hypothetically liked to see at an updated version of the festival.

From Washington Post

He plays an aging punk rocker and I play the drummer from his old band.

From The Daily Beast

I was friends with her drummer from Sleater-Kinney, and I met Carrie, and we just hit it off.

From The Daily Beast

He started to tell Cavett about his teenage dreams of becoming a jazz drummer.

From The Daily Beast

When Perl mentioned she was looking for a female drummer in the Hasidic community, a mutual friend introduced her to Dalia.

From The Daily Beast

Max Drummer (Harrison Ford) is the CIA chief who ordered the expendables to take Stonebanks down.

From The Daily Beast

The other drummer appealed to the stage-driver to support his contention that the court's action was novel, but entirely just.

From Project Gutenberg

A drummer soon came with a message from the besiegers, but a message which was utterly unintelligible to the besieged.

From Project Gutenberg

So with a shout of victory, and the drummer beating a lively march, they rushed to the redoubt, where not a man was to be seen.

From Project Gutenberg

He was not a drummer at Austerlitz, and for the instant he did not remember the tune the drummers played.

From Project Gutenberg

Valmond had spoken down at the aged drummer, whose arms were young again, as once more he marched on Pratzen.

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