Beats
Beats noun - A United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop).
Drums
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- Slater from Saved by the Bell is so good at playing drums that we hear the beats before he even hits the drums.
Source: Artistic License Music -
In this game, you give a troop of characters orders by playing certain beats on some drums, and this is the order to advance.
Source: Most Annoying Sound -
This has some basis in actual Star Wars canon; see the part at the end of Return of the Jedi where an Ewok beats the severed heads of downed Stormtroopers like drums.
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Drums and Beats. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/beats/drums
Beats & Drums. N.p., 2016. Web. 13 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/beats/drums>.
Drums or Beats. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/beats/drums.
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