strum
verb (used with object)
to play on (a stringed musical instrument) by running the fingers lightly across the strings.
strummer
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a word derived from
strum.
Example Sentences
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The boy admits that it is, sending mom into a fit in which she calls banjo-playing “a pollution of the blood, like leprosy,” inherited in this case from Preston’s long-gone father, a habitual strummer.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2019
On his latest album, 2016’s gentle “Ape in Pink Marble,” the singer and strummer sounds happily liberated from the pressure to serve as a mascot for some idea of modern psychedelia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2018
But all Cody wants to talk about is Rick Springfield, who plays Streep’s on-again-off-again boyfriend, the strummer in her character’s bar band.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2015
On the nine-minute Cat Stevens strummer “Jackson Park Express”, Al relates one of the great love stories of our time.
From Time ● Jul. 17, 2014
A strummer of wire, a player on any instrument strung with wire.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis
