drum up

1. 1.

   gather

   “drum up support”

   Synonymsbeat uprally

   Broadercollect

Questions about drum up

What does drum up mean?

drum up means "gather".

What is another word for drum up?

Close synonyms include beat up, rally. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drum up a common word?

drum up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.