drumstick
noun
drum·stick
ˈdrəm-ˌstik 
1
: a stick for beating a drum
2
: the segment of a fowl's leg between the thigh and tarsus
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Instead, the eldest Quintanilla sibling chose to put down her drumsticks and move behind the scenes to work at the family’s entertainment company, Q-Productions.
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Selena Barrientos, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2024
Guitars with drumsticks under their strings, pounded instead of played.
—Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 23 Jan. 2024
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Selena Barrientos, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2024
Guitars with drumsticks under their strings, pounded instead of played.
—Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 23 Jan. 2024
See all Example Sentences for drumstick
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drumstick
noun
drum·stick
ˈdrəm-ˌstik
1
: a stick for beating a drum
2
: the lower part of a fowl's leg
Medical Definition
drumstick
noun
drum·stick
-ˌstik
: a small projection from the cell nucleus that occurs especially in neutrophils of the normal human female and is comprised of an inactivated condensed X chromosome
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