Noun
Big Drum (uncountable)
(music, dance, Caribbean) A genre of music and dance, and an associated festival tradition, found in many islands of the Lesser Antilles.
big drum (uncountable)
Alternative form of Big Drum
Ted, I noted, was very busy - at the pumps, at the glasses behind, the bottles below, the merrily ringing till, like a percussion-player in some modern work who dashes with confidence from xylophone to glockenspiel to triangle to wind-machine to big drum to tambourine. Anthony Burgess
The big drum only sounds well from a distance. Persian Proverb
A fool is like the big drum that beats fast but does not realize its hollowness. Malay Proverb
When the big drum is sounded the small drums keep silence. African Proverb