paradiddle
- 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 .