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percussive junkie

A person you makes sounds to correspond to the percussion in recordings like Fever Ray Take It to the Streets
Hey, have you heard that guy over at the end of the bar, he sounds like he's the drummer.

Yeah, I know him he's a percussive junkie
by supersize_my_fries July 26, 2010
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Percussive Maintenance

The fine art of bludgeoning an electronic device in order to encourage it to work properly. Vigorous usage of this technique often renders said device permanently nonfunctional.
My goddamned monitor was flickering until I used some percussive maintenance; now it's totally dead and Help Desk is bringing me a new one.
by naz_ghul March 14, 2003
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Perdu

When something bad happens but you don't have an etiquette response. Draws from French word.
You- "I lost my keys"
Me-"Perdu"
by TimUrban March 3, 2019
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indoor percussion

A way of surviving after marching band season is over.
Man, if it wasn't for indoor percussion after marching band, I would die of boredom.
by a Mystic's Dream December 23, 2009
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perfuma

The cute flower girl from she-ra who doesn't like it when you throw tanks at your friends.
"We do not throw tanks at out friends!" - perfuma
by ~HeyAdora~ December 12, 2020
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Ballbag Percussion

The noise made giving a girl a hiding where ones balls slaps against their ass.
"I banged Shirley the other day and orchestrated Ballbag Percussion".
by Big Dilney March 27, 2015
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percussion

A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being struck with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. The term usually applies to an object used in a rhythmic context and/or with musical intent.

The word, "percussion", has evolved from Latin terms: "percussio" (which translates as "to beat, strike" in the musical sense, rather than the violent action), and "percussus" (which is a noun meaning "a beating"). As a noun in contemporary English it is described at Wiktionary as "the collision of two bodies to produce a sound". The usage of the term is not unique to music but has application in medicine and weaponry, as in percussion cap, but all known and common uses of the word, "percussion", appear to share a similar lineage beginning with the original Latin: "percussus". In a musical context then, the term "percussion instruments" may have been coined originally to describe a family of instruments including drums, rattles, metal plates, or wooden blocks which musicians would beat or strike (as in a collision) to produce sound.
percussion:
spokes on a bicycle wheel
brooms
a shopping cart
metal pipes
clay pots
garbage cans
by chickenHeads April 27, 2007
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