noun
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a stick used for playing a drum
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the lower joint of the leg of a cooked fowl
Etymology
Origin of drumstick
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Example Sentences
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Much like that final drumstick you probably shouldn’t have eaten, equities spent last week digesting their gains.
From Barron's
Lady Constance watched in a daze as her husband speared another drumstick from the platter.
From Literature
The tabor was also the earliest ever found and the drumstick was of a design never previously seen.
From Literature
But customers are skipping drumsticks, breasts and thighs, reaching instead for sandwiches and tenders that have made Chick-fil-A, Dave’s Hot Chicken and Raising Cane’s some of the industry’s fastest-growing brands.
As she sat out the quarter-final win over Scotland with concussion, Kildunne was one of those to enthusiastically take up the drumsticks.
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