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Rub-a-dub   /rəb-ə-dəb/   Listen
Rub-a-dub

noun
1.
The sound made by beating a drum.  Synonyms: drumbeat, rataplan.






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"Rub-a-dub" Quotes from Famous Books



... advanced, beating no measured martial tune, but a kind of rub-a-dub-dub, like that with which the fire-drum startles the slumbering artizans of a Scotch burgh. It is the object of this history to do justice to all men; I must therefore record, in justice to the drummer, that he protested he could beat any known march or point of war ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott



Words linked to "Rub-a-dub" :   sound, drumbeat, rataplan



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