drum up
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To prepare food or drink with improvised implements, e.g. while camping; especially, to make tea in something other than a tea kettle.
British usage; Slang; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "The candidate gave speeches, shook hands, and kissed babies in an effort to drum up support before the election."
- "From 1910, to drum up custom, the Metropolitan would operate a luxury Pullman service from Verney Junction to Aldgate."
- "In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters."
Usage
- British usage
- Slang
- Transitive verb