All drumroll synonyms
drum·roll
D d noun drumroll
- tattoo — a signal on a drum, bugle, or trumpet at night, for soldiers or sailors to go to their quarters.
- rattle — to give out or cause a rapid succession of short, sharp sounds, as in consequence of agitation and repeated concussions: The windows rattled in their frames.
- rumble — to make a deep, heavy, somewhat muffled, continuous sound, as thunder.
- crescendo — A crescendo is a noise that gets louder and louder. Some people also use crescendo to refer to the point when a noise is at its loudest.
- buildup — praise or favorable publicity, esp. when systematic and intended to make something popular, well-known, etc.
- paradiddle — an exercise or sequence performed typically on the snare drum, marked by four basic beats with alternation of the right hand and left hand on successive strong beats, and begun and ended slowly with a dramatic increase in tempo in the middle.