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strum

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1. strum - Noun

2. strum - Verb

4. Strum - Proper noun

Meaning

To play on an instrument of music, or as on an instrument, in an unskillful or noisy way; to thrum; as, to strum a piano.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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What I'd like to do now - well, what I'd like to do now is grow my beard very long, weave it into my pubes and strum it like a harp. Bill Bailey

Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed me But your youth is no handicap it's what makes you thirsty. Harry Chapin

Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public. Ben E. King

I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror. Jonathan Pryce

I know that timid breathing. Where Do I begin and end? And where, As I strum the thing, do I pick up That which momentously declares Itself not to be I and yet Must be. It could be nothing else. Wallace Stevens

Strum, strum and be hanged. Theobald Wolfe Tone

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