The second joint of the legbone of a chicken or other fowl, especially as an item of food.
Used in a Sentence
drumstick
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for drumstick.
Editorial note
To use 'chicken drumsticks' then, yes obviously no drumstick, but certainly chicken, as though a drumstick made of chicken instead of wood.
Examples16
Definitions3
Parts of speech1
Quick take
The second joint of the legbone of a chicken or other fowl, especially as an item of food.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of drumstick gathered in one view.
A stick used to play drums.
(South Asia, Myanmar) The moringa or drumstick tree, Moringa oleifera, especially its slender, cylindrical pods.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for drumstick.
noun
The second joint of the legbone of a chicken or other fowl, especially as an item of food.
noun
A stick used to play drums.
noun
(South Asia, Myanmar) The moringa or drumstick tree, Moringa oleifera, especially its slender, cylindrical pods.
Example sentences
To use 'chicken drumsticks' then, yes obviously no drumstick, but certainly chicken, as though a drumstick made of chicken instead of wood.
An equivalent to 'chicken drumstick' would be 'jackfruit drumstick', or whatever it actually is.
Crank those up enough, and you end up with a trashed hotel room or maybe a drumstick up someone's butt.
A 'vegetarian drumstick' only tells me it's not made of chicken, and that it's edible, non-wood, I suppose.
Just like a Breaded Drumstick was unlikely to have been used by Ringo Starr.
I managed to make it through dinner, but after dessert I saw a glistening leftover drumstick in the kitchen.
Loved seeing a commercial from Nestle drumstick with an attractive blonde slowly eating the ice cream bar in a very sexually charged manner.
Eating a Chicken drumstick is more nutritious and healthier than a steak.
Well you can't bone a chicken drumstick very easily with a bread knife, so why would one try to use CouchDB as a relational database.
And being honest, I'd be very interested in a family drumstick from Kentucky Fried Moa.
A randomly arranged amorphous mass of protein is not a drumstick.
So I shook his hand, way too high for this interaction, as Thurston took a drumstick to his guitar in the background.
Quote examples
However, there are certain atomic-scale materials that do resist your horrible off-beat drumming, and you "hit" them with a laser rather than a drumstick.
If I write a composition in which a single person plays a pair of water glasses with one drumstick, that's "minimalism".
I don’t know how to feel about the visceral reaction that I have to the action of swiping my thumb in a movement that I can trace from where I guess is a team of tendons somewhere parallel to my wrist and the little fat part of my palm I like to refer to as “my drumstick”, from the bottom of my phone’s screen until the tip of my thumb is just at my general line of sight, all of this in one natural motion.
Proper noun examples
I am still holding out hope for the Drumstick-TikTok Merger.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use drumstick in a sentence?
To use 'chicken drumsticks' then, yes obviously no drumstick, but certainly chicken, as though a drumstick made of chicken instead of wood.
What does drumstick mean?
The second joint of the legbone of a chicken or other fowl, especially as an item of food.
What part of speech is drumstick?
drumstick is commonly used as noun.