From HomoExcelsior

1. A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder or hemisphere with a membrane stretched tightly over one or both ends, played by beating with the hands or sticks. 2. A sound produced by this instrument. 3. Something resembling a drum in shape or structure, especially a barrellike metal container or a metal cylinder wound with cable, wire, or heavy rope. 4. Any of various marine and freshwater fishes of the family Sciaenidae that make a drumming sound. 5. The eardrum. 6. To play a drum or drums. 7. nervously drummed on the table. 8. To produce a booming, reverberating sound by beating the wings, as certain birds do. 9. To perform (a piece or tune) on or as if on a drum. 10. To summon by or as if by beating a drum. 11. drummed the answers into my head. 12. was drummed out of the army. 13. drum up new business. 14. drummed up an alibi.