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drumbeat
noun 4
Collocations
2ADJ.
groovy, single
DRUMBEAT + NOUN
roadside
Definitions
noun
1
The beating of a drum.
2
The sound of a beating drum.
This is not the drumbeat of a single drummer leading a charge.
3
A repetitive beating sound.
This music has a groovy drumbeat that makes me dance!
The drumbeat of roadside bombs and suicide attacks continued all over the 2d Brigade, 10th Mountain Division's area of operations.
4
A driving force.
Nevertheless, greatness rarely receives public approval, because most people spend their lives goose-stepping to the drumbeat of economic necessity.
On a more scholarly level the drumbeat of need was signalled too: as when the newly appointed headmaster of the Merchant Taylors' School, Richard Mulcaster, declared: 'it would be a thing verie praiseworthy ... if som one learned and as laborious a man wold gather all the wordes which we vse in our English tung ... into one dictionarie.'
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Synonyms
noun — the sound made by beating a drum
- rub-a-dub
- rataplan
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This is not the drumbeat of a single drummer leading a charge.
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This music has a groovy drumbeat that makes me dance!
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The drumbeat of roadside bombs and suicide attacks continued all over the 2d Brigade, 10th Mountain Division's area of operations.
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