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steel drum
noun
: a metal drum shaped like a bowl or barrel that makes different sounds when it is hit at different places
Full Definition of STEEL DRUM
: a musical instrument originally developed in Trinidad that is played by hammering raised and tuned portions of the bottom of an oil drum
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First Known Use of STEEL DRUM
1952
Rhymes with STEEL DRUM
alum, aplomb, bass drum, bay rum, beach plum, become, benumb, degum, dim sum, dumdum, dum-dum, eardrum, far from, green thumb, hail from, ho-hum, how come, humdrum, income, in sum, outcome, pond scum, side drum, snare drum, sour gum, subgum, succumb, sweet gum, therefrom, to come, Tom Thumb, tom-tom, wherefrom, yum-yum
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