drum up

drum up

verb

Definition of DRUM UP

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination <anyone who drums up a better way of doing this tedious task will make a fortune>

Synonyms concoct, construct, contrive, cook (up), devise, drum up, excogitate, fabricate, make up, manufacture, think (up), trump up, vamp (up)

Related Words coin, design, hatch, produce; daydream, dream, fantasize; conceive, envisage, envision, imagine, picture, vision, visualize; ad-lib, extemporize, improvise

Near Antonyms clone, copy, copycat, duplicate, imitate, mimic, reduplicate, replicate, reproduce