dum-dum

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dum-dum

slang Someone who is very stupid. Can you believe that dum-dum is still pushing the door marked "pull"?

dumb-dumb

and dum-dum

n. a stupid oaf; a dullard. Marvin is no dum-dum. He just looks that way.

dum-dum

verb

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Huge, fierce brutes stopped in their hunting, with up-pricked ears and raised heads, to listen to the dull booming that betokened the Dum-Dum of the apes.

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"I come to dance the Dum-Dum with my brothers," and he made a motion to the drummers, who immediately took up the cadence of the dance where they had dropped it to watch their king slay the foolish Tarmangani.

"Shall Tarzan dance the Dum-Dum with his brothers now, or shall he kill first?"

"Kagoda!" he cried "Tarzan of the Apes will dance the Dum-Dum with his brothers and Go-lat will dance with him!"

And then the girl in the tree saw the savage man leaping, bending, and stamping with the savage apes in the ancient rite of the Dum-Dum. His roars and growls were more beastly than the beasts.

Sheeta, the panther, knowing that not even Numa, the lion, unless maddened by starvation, dares meddle with the great apes at their Dum-Dum, had silently vanished into the night, seeking his supper elsewhere.

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Then the two took up their journey toward the sound of the Dum-Dum. Louder and louder came the beating of the drum.