Meaning of Drumstick | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A stick used to play drums.
2. The second joint of the legbone of a chicken or other fowl, especially as an item of food.
3. The moringa or drumstick tree, Moringa oleifera, especially its slender, cylindrical pods.
   Myanmar, South-Asia
4. A person's leg.
   in-plural, slang

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Examples

“She could imagine the taste of the tender drumstick seeds on her tongue.”

“At a given signal, from the boss of the hack, who stands door in hand, the young lady gathers her clothes well up her drumsticks, and would you believe, two steps or springs only, like those of a kangaroo, take her into the house.”

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