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"DRUMSTICKS" is a plural of: drumstick. |
Date "DRUMSTICKS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Drumsticks Legs. The leg of a cooked fowl is called a drumstick. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: DRUMSTICKS |
| English words defined with "DRUMSTICKS": beat ♦ wing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DRUMSTICKS": DRUMMER ♦ POULTRY BONER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Forget about the dessert, you don't buy Angel Martin with a couple of drumsticks and some redeye gravy (The Rockford Files; writing credit: Rahel Fabian; Moshé Mizrahi) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Holiday for Drumsticks (1949) Drumsticks (1910) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Raw chicken drumsticks" by Annie Andre Commentary: "Some raw chicken drumsticks cooking in a pan. Yuck....." |
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| "DRUMSTICKS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DRUMSTICKS" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "DRUMSTICKS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Trommelstöcke. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | umsticksdray.(various references) | |
Romanian | picioroange (stilts), catalige (broomsticks, pin, stilts). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"DRUMSTICKS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: drumsteaks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-i-k-m-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: drumstick, misstruck. | |
-2 letters: stickums. | |
-3 letters: crissum, dictums, miscuts, muscids, muskits, rustics, sistrum, stickum, stricks, trismus, truisms. | |
-4 letters: cistus, citrus, crusts, dictum, discus, kumiss, midsts, miscut, murids, muscid, musics, muskit, rictus, rustic, scrims, scrums, skirts, smirks, sticks, stirks, strick, struck, strums, tricks, trucks, truism, tsuris. | |
-5 letters: cists, cruds, crust, curds, curst, cusks, cutis, dicks, dirks, dirts. | |
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