countable noun. A drum roll is a series of drumbeats that follow each other so quickly that they make a continuous sound. A drum roll is often used to show that someone important is arriving, or to introduce someone. A long drum roll introduced the trapeze artists.
How do you use drumroll please in a sentence?
Meaning of drumroll in English
- He had to keep a drumroll going for the whole time that Vasiliev held the ballerina up.
- "Do we have a drum roll?" the TV host quipped as his imitator entered the studio.
- The emerging answer to the question "Is religion good for your health?" is (drumroll, please) "It depends."
What does namesake mean in English?
: one that has the same name as another especially : one who is named after another or for whom another is named His grandson and namesake is the spit and image of him … —
