drumbeat (n.)

  1. the sound made by beating a drum

    [ Syn: rub-a-dub , rataplan ]

  2. (military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown

  3. a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause; the warmongers kept up their drumbeat on Iraq'

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