drum kit

noun

: a set of drums and cymbals

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DeJohnette pivoted to the drums after a friend left a drum kit in his family’s basement. Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025 The combination of a conservative politician with a rock-and-roll past — Japan’s first female prime minister behind a drum kit and once on a bike — has helped shape her public image as both disciplined and unconventional. Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2025 Previous highlights include a crazy drum kit input device, a funky magic hand, a row of letters in one long bar, and an infinite twisty keyboard based on the Möbius strip. New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2025 Among them are famous drummers Questlove, Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Lars Ulrich of Metallica, as Spinal Tap hopes to coax one of them to play the drum kit in their concert because their previous 11 drummers all suffered from mysterious deaths. Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for drum kit

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