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drum

verb as in beat, tap a beat

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Others used the orange Home Depot buckets as drums as they marched through the store.

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A small handful of other players appear on the album, most prominently in “I Love You,” which erupts near the end with a wild drum fill performed by Jesso’s old pal Kane Ritchotte.

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The prowling bassline of National Anthem and the slamming drum loops of Idioteque, in particular, give the audience ample opportunity to jump up and down.

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Even without the adrenaline of a packed room, he drummed up a bidding war and ultimately sold Francis Bacon’s “Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus” for $85 million.

He wanted to return to the city where he had lived and worked in the industry for 17 years to see if he could drum up old connections for new work.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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