drill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: drĭl
ipa: /dɹɪl/
ipa: [dɹɪɫ]
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: drills
Etymology: From Middle Dutch drillen (“bore, move in a circle”).
Senses: examples: text: Wear safety glasses when operating an electric drill.
glosses: A tool or machine used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
examples: text: Use a drill with a wire brush to remove any rust or buildup.
glosses: The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
examples: text: Regular fire drills can ensure that everyone knows how to exit safely in an emergency.
text: “[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
examples: text: At today's practice, the football team performed a variety of goalkeeping drills.
glosses: A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
glosses: Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx and others, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that make holes in the shells of their prey.
examples: text: Though the young women of Chicago’s drill scene can be as rowdy as their male counterparts, they’re also more diverse in subject matter and point to a possible way forward.
ref: 2012 October 4, Jon Caramanica, “Chicago Hip-Hop’s Raw Burst of Change”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: New York City mayor Eric Adams held a summit with a group of drill rappers on Tuesday night and clarified he doesn’t actually want to ban their music, days after he appeared to blame the music scene for the recent shooting deaths of two young New York rappers and suggested drill videos be pulled from the internet.
ref: 2022 February 18, Wilfred Chan, “Eric Adams meets with the drill rappers whose music he said he wanted to ban”, in The Guardian:
text: Between ticky off-kilter rhythms and otherworldly digital voice processing, the experimental hip-hop genres trap and drill have delivered radical hymns from alien planets.
ref: 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 10, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
examples: text: These bells are alarmin’
Point blank and you missed your target
They go shooting range and their drills are garbage
ref: 2020 November 19, (67) PR SAD, “One Wish” (0:55 from the start):
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A single performance of drill music.
Derived terms: air drill
antidrill
bench drill
Bioko drill
Birkenhead drill
bow drill
breast drill
Brooklyn drill
chain drill
Chinese fire drill
churn drill
close-order drill
close order drill
core drill
dental drill
dentist's drill
drill and bass
drill and kill
drill bow
drill core
drilldo
drill floor
drill ground
drill hall
drillhead
drill hoe
drill instructor
drill jig
drillmaster
drill 'n' bass
Drillock
drill pipe
drillproof
drill rig
drill sergeant
drillship
drillstock
drill string
drop-drill
earthquake drill
electrodrill
extended order drill
extended-order drill
failure drill
finger drill
fire drill
hand drill
imperial drill
Irish drill
kerb drill
know the drill
lockdown drill
match drill
microdrill
mill drill
monkey drill
Mozambique drill
New York drill
Oklahoma drill
pedestal drill
pillar drill
pin drill
pneumatic drill
power drill
pump drill
ratchet drill
rock drill
sack drill
seed drill
shot-drill
subdrill
sword drill
tap drill
this is not a drill
thrill
tip drill
tornado drill
traverse drill
turbodrill
twindrills
UK drill
Related terms: drill bit
twist drill
drill press
drill down