英语词汇“tom-tom”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	tom-tom
释义	tom-tom I. \ˈtämˌtäm\ noun (-s) Etymology: Hindi ṭamṭam 1. : a small-headed drum of varying shape but typically long and narrow commonly beaten with the hands < religious melodies chanted to the accompaniment of tom-toms — Newsweek > 2. : tam-tam 3. a. : something used to make a noise suggestive of the tom-tom's beating b. : an insistently monotonous beating, rhythm, or rhythmical sound < the radiators beat an unending tom-tom like the Royal Watusi drums — S.J.Perelman > II. verb (tom-tomed or tom-tommed ; tom-tomed or tom-tommed ; tom-toming or tom-tomming ; tom-toms) *intransitive verb* : to sound a tom-tom especially as a signal : make tom-tom sounds < waving genial greetings to thousands of tom-toming, grass-skirted Africans — Newsweek > < she observed her feet tom-toming out the pattern of rhythm she was whistling — Jesse Lasky > *transitive verb* : to sound on the tom-tom : play or execute on or as if on a tom-tom III. adjective : of or relating to the tom-tom < traditional tom-tom beaters — Time > : characteristic or suggestive of the tom-tom < tom-tom muffs, with cords around the middle — Lois Long >
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