drum up
(transitive, UK, slang) To prepare food or drink with improvised implements, e.g.
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Nick Shirley, a Trump administration asset, is trying to drum up panic about seeing Cubans in Cuba, which he was allowed to go to despite being an agent of a hostile power. I wish any of his fantasies had been real. N…
Lordt, let me I never so greatly turn my allies to enemies that my spokesperson needs to reference one heroic thing I did a quarter century ago to drum up baseline sympathy for me laying ill in a hospital bed. Let tha…
Those machines made for working out you neck muscles were invented by an evil chiropractor to drum up business.
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(transitive, UK, slang) To prepare food or drink with improvised implements, e.g. while camping; especially, to make tea in something other than a tea kettle.
“Nick Shirley, a Trump administration asset, is trying to drum up panic about seeing Cubans in Cuba, which he was allowed to go to despite being an agent of a hostile power. I wish any of his fantasies had been real. Nobody deserves it more.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Lordt, let me I never so greatly turn my allies to enemies that my spokesperson needs to reference one heroic thing I did a quarter century ago to drum up baseline sympathy for me laying ill in a hospital bed. Let that never be me.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Those machines made for working out you neck muscles were invented by an evil chiropractor to drum up business.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(idiomatic) To generate or encourage; to campaign for.
The candidate gave speeches, shook hands, and kissed babies in an effort to drum up support before the election.
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