Definitions
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- adjective shaped in a form resembling a drum
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Examples
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The abdomen is often swollen and drum-like; the dog usually drools in panic because it can't belch or vomit the mounting pressure away.
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The abdomen is often swollen and drum-like; the dog usually drools in panic because it can't belch or vomit the mounting pressure away.
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But Corea found a way to combine drum-like, repeated notes with unabashed lyricism.
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But Corea found a way to combine drum-like, repeated notes with unabashed lyricism.
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Past all the shouts, the grown men crying alone in their cells, past the smell of urine, past the idiots kicking the cell doors in one long constant drum-like beat.
I Don’t Think So « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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Officials called it another jump ball, prompting drum-like chants from the crowd and protests from the Mavs bench.
USATODAY.com 2006
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Someone splashes Betadine all over my belly, they get the area sterile, the doctor shows up, they lower a drum-like x-ray dealie down low over my stomach, and then they do the deed.
Wednesday gimp blogging Kay Olson 2006
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Someone splashes Betadine all over my belly, they get the area sterile, the doctor shows up, they lower a drum-like x-ray dealie down low over my stomach, and then they do the deed.
Archive 2006-11-01 Kay Olson 2006
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Flags were exchanged -- a ritual apparently of some moment, for the ruffles and paradiddles of drum-like chatter rose to a crescendo.
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Lallie, disarranged — hurt — her, in pulling back the sheet and exposing the distended drum-like little body.
Ultima Thule 2003
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