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trumpeter

noun as in bighead

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Most jazz lovers know Blanchard’s extensive work as a trumpeter with an impressive body of work.

From Ozy

A decorated jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer, he has penned the scores for more than 40 feature films — including 17 of Lee’s films, earning Oscar nominations for 2018′s “BlacKkKlansman” as well as 2020′s “Da 5 Bloods.”

His father was a trumpeter in the big-band era and later a car salesman, and his mother was a nurse.

Alfredo “Freddy” Valles was an accomplished trumpeter and a beloved music teacher for nearly four decades at one of the poorest middle schools in El Paso, Texas.

From Time

Why did he get into arguments with petty people, like the trumpeter in his town?

The following summer, its hot trumpeter, Hieronymus Falk, was arrested by the Gestapo in a Paris café, and vanished thereafter.

Arch singles out trumpeter Guy Barker and drummer Clark Tracey for special mention.

Well, I am thankful yet—mine is a marvellous happy lot, to be better than a dead trumpeter!

I stumbled over a fat trumpeter in the field, stript and plunder'd, with his skin full of bullets.

At last the corps to which he belonged was worsted, and in the confusion of retreat the trumpeter was mortally wounded.

A trumpeter, seeing the man hesitate, sounded a warning, and the containing troops stood on the alert.

Quick work; but master trumpeter wasn't quite dead; nothing worse than a cracked head and three staved ribs.

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On this page you'll find 81 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to trumpeter, such as: blowhard, braggart, bragger, egomaniac, egotist, and know-it-all.

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

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