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drum
noun- a place of business or residence, a house, a home, a flat, etc UK, 1846
- It would have been too dodgy swagging gear into Bella’s drum at 3 a.m. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 22, 1956
- Aristov’s in Greek street, you know the drum. — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 53, 1962
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 48, 1996
- She didn’t disturb me while i was doing her drum over[.] — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 27, 2001
- by extension from sense 1, a brothel AUSTRALIA, 1879
- The girl said something to the drum slavey and went out with her, leaving Hilary stranded. — Norman Lindsay, The Cousin from Fiji, p. 187, 1945
- — Robert S. Close, Love Me Sailor, p. 12, 1945
- a cell UK, 1909
- — John R. Armore and Joseph D. Wolfe, Dictionary of Desperation, p. 27, 1976
- He’s in the big house for all day and night, a new fish jammed into a drum with a cribman, who acts like a gazoonie. — San Francisco Examiner, p. 26, 17 August 1976
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 47, 1996
- a safe US, 1912
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 797, 1962
- reliable information; inside information AUSTRALIA, 1915
- Nick along and give the others the drum about it. — Robert S. Close, With Hooves of Brass, p. 137, 1961
- And do you have the drum about where we’ll be working, and for how long? — Ray Slattery, Mobbs’ Mob, p. 45, 1966
- in horse racing, reliable inside information AUSTRALIA
- — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 24, 1989
- the face UK
Rhyming slang, from “drum ‘n’ bass” (an electronic music genre). - I’ve got a great big spot brewing on my drum — 19, February 2001
▶ run a drum
(of a racehorse) to run a winning race, as tipped or expected AUSTRALIA
Used in negative contexts.- Wot did I tell yer! Wasn’t it a put up job the last time? Couldn’t run a drum in a field o’ goats an’ now ’e licks class company! — Raymond Spargo, Betting Systems Analysed, p. 44, 1933
- If ’e’s with the tail-enders, ’e never run a drum. — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 76, 1957
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