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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
drumstick
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chicken drumsticks (=the lower part of chicken legs)
▪ party food, such as sandwiches and chicken drumsticks
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A hot chicken take away counter offering freshly cooked drumsticks, thighs and whole cooked chickens was introduced at Merton.
▪ Cynthia could eat the drumstick, and he could not.
▪ From a distance the braces look to be giant bleached drumsticks of a creature long dead.
▪ No matter how hard he tried, he would never be able to eat the drumstick.
▪ Ruefully, Grimm took up the drumstick again and gnawed.
▪ The guy was standing knock-kneed in his front yard holding a quarter chicken by the end of the drumstick.
▪ The Livesey grandchildren accepted her as an unprotesting and highly flexible playmate, occasionally using her forearms as drumsticks.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drumstick

Drumstick \Drum"stick`\, n.

  1. A stick with which a drum is beaten.

  2. Anything resembling a drumstick in form; -- applied especially to the tibiotarsus, or second joint, of the leg of a fowl, when cooked and served at the table.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
drumstick

1580s, from drum (n.) + stick (n.); applied to the lower joint of cooked fowl 1764.

Wiktionary
drumstick

n. 1 A stick used to play drums. 2 The second joint of the leg bone of a chicken or other fowl, as meat. 3 (context India English) The moringa or drumstick tree, ''Moringa oleifera'', especially its slender, cylindrical pods.

WordNet
drumstick
  1. n. the lower joint of the leg of a fowl

  2. a stick used for playing a drum

Wikipedia
Drumstick (ice cream)

Drumstick is the brand name, owned by Nestlé since 1991, for a variety of ice cream-filled ice cream cones sold in the United States, Australia, Canada, Malaysia, and other countries across the world. The original product was invented by I.C. Parker of The Drumstick Company of Fort Worth, Texas in 1928.

A typical drumstick consists of a waffle cone filled with ice cream topped with a hardened chocolate shell and nuts, and much later, with a chocolate lined cone and a chunk of chocolate at the bottom. Drumsticks are available from a variety of supermarkets, ice cream trucks and convenience stores.

Due to the historic popularity of this dessert, it is commonly called a drumstick even if it is manufactured by some other company and branded otherwise. "Forever Summer" has been a tagline for this brand.

Drumstick

Drumstick can mean:

  • Drum stick, a tool for playing drums
  • Drumstick (vegetable)
  • Drumstick (ice cream), a brand of ice cream
  • Drumstick (poultry), the leg of a bird
  • Drumstick (video game character), a video game character found in Diddy Kong Racing
  • Drumstick, a chewy candy by Swizzels Matlow
  • Shevagyachya Shenga or Drumsticks, a 1955 Marathi language Indian film
  • Moringa oleifera or drumstick tree
    • Drumstick, the mascot of Poultryfest in Smithville, Ontario, Canada

Usage examples of "drumstick".

And so Oskar acquired a third drumstick -- he was old enough for that.

So I slipped in with her under the featherbed, left my drum and the two sticks I had just been using outside, and permitted only a third drumstick, a used and rather scrawny one, to accompany me on my visit to Lina.

Still clutching a drumstick the size of an ostrich leg, he stepped out through a massively pillared portico.

Itharr plucked a drumstick from it without looking, his eyes on Belkram and Sharantyr.

I have been compelled to take up my drum and drumsticks and, gazing at the faded brownish rectangle, attempt to conjure up the dimly visible three-cornered constellation.

I have just described a photograph showing Oskar full length with drum and drumsticks, and at the same time disclosed what decisions, having had three years in which to mature, were definitely taken by Oskar as he was being photographed at his birthday party, not far from a cake with three candles.

The drum stood up well under the strain, the grownups around me not quite so well, they were always wanting to interrupt my drum, to cross it up, to crimp my drumsticks -- but nature looked out for me.

Tearing myself away from the clouds which obviously had no school that day, I leapt to my feet, pulled my drumsticks out from under my suspenders, and loudly, emphatically, drummed out the time of the song.

I stood facing the Stockturm, steep brick wall pinned against the sky, and it was only by chance, in response to a faint stirring of boredom, that I wedged my drumsticks in between the masonry and the iron mounting of the door.

I called back my gaze and, to dispel my irritation, began in earnest to use my drumsticks as levers.

Oskar the son unbuttoned his coat, reached quickly for his drumsticks, and made his drum cry out: Father, father, until Jan Bronski turned and slowly, much too slowly, crossed the street, and found me, Oskar, in the doorway.

My double raised both arms and clenched his fists in such a way that one wanted desperately to thrust something into them, my drumsticks for example.

And finally, putting the drumsticks back into his hands, I gave him his chance to show what he had learned from Oskar.

Before I had time to wrench drum and drumsticks away from this most obstinate of all pupils without concern for his halo, Father Wiehnke was behind me -- my drumming had made itself heard throughout the length and breadth of the church -- Vicar Rasczeia was behind me.

The Vicar pulled me down, Father Wiehnke cuffed me, Mama wept at me, Father Wiehnke whispered at me, the Vicar genuflected and bobbed up and took the drumsticks away from Jesus, genuflected again with the drumsticks and bobbed up again for the drum, took the drum away from Little Lord Jesus, cracked his halo, jostled his watering can, broke off a bit of cloud, tumbled down the steps, and genuflected once more.