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  • n  the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously

  • In this movie he still is: dancing like a boxer, chewing gum, his feet banging out a nervous paradiddle.
  • Clancy is prepared to draw his sword and lead a charge at the drop of a paradiddle from his native drummer boy.
  • He is performer and critic, rapping out a whole percussion section of effects to suit a funny linea wince that clacks like a rim shot, a wagging paradiddle indicating .

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