HomeServicesBlogDictionariesContactSpanish Course
← Back to search

Meaning of Drummer | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈdɹʌmə(ɹ)

Definitions

  1. A housebreaker.
    UK, slang
  2. A surname.
  3. One who plays the drums.
  4. A drumstick (the lower part of a chicken or turkey leg).
  5. A travelling salesman.
  6. Any of various fish of the family Kyphosidae, which make a drumming sound.

Equivalents

Examples

“Kate is the lead guitarist, Luna is the drummer, and Izzy is the bass guitarist.”
“The Eric Revis Trio, featuring the pianist Kris Davis, the bassist Eric Revis and the drummer Gerald Cleaver performing at the Jazz Gallery.Credit...”
“Bullock's liver will catch drummer.”
“Bennett's central figure, Ray, is first and foremost a serial "drummer" (housebreaker in crim-speak), and only secondly a human being, […]”
“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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
See all B1 English words →

See also

Learn this word in context

See Drummer used in real conversations inside our free language course.

Start Free Course

Know this word better than we do? Language is a living thing — help us keep it growing. Collaborate with Babel Free