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drummer

[druhm-er]

drum·mer

[druhm-er]
noun
1.
a person who plays a drum.
2.
a commercial traveler or traveling sales representative.
3.
march to a different drummer, to be motivated by a different set of values than the average person.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.

Origin:
1565–75; drum1 + -er1
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drummer (ˈdrʌmə)
 
n
1.  a person who plays a drum or set of drums
2.  chiefly (US) a salesman, esp a travelling salesman
3.  slang (Austral), (NZ) the slowest shearer in a team

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drummer

see march to a different beat (drummer).

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