drumbeat   (TTS Sound)

The noun drumbeat has 3 senses

• rub-a-dub, rataplan, drumbeat -- (the sound made by beating a drum)


• drumbeat -- ((military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown)


• drumbeat -- (a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause; "the warmongers kept up their drumbeat on Iraq")