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tub-thumper

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tub-thump (tbthmp)
intr.v. tub-thumped, tub-thump·ing, tub-thumps Slang
To argue for or promote something vigorously: "is tub-thumping for a six-month limit on the legislative session" (David Nyhan).
tub-thumper n.
tub-thumper
n
a noisy, violent, or ranting public speaker
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Noun1.tub-thumper - a noisy and vigorous or ranting public speakertub-thumper - a noisy and vigorous or ranting public speaker
orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechifier, speechmaker - a person who delivers a speech or oration
Translations
tub-thumper [ˈtʌbˌθʌmpəʳ] N (Brit) (fig) → orador m demagógico
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We Rock: Drum King (Wii) AH, the tub-thumper, the stickman, the heartbeat of every good rock band, often the forgotten member of the band.
Keep up with the beat by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
He wrote popular tub-thumpers for his own performance and two of them appear here, Introduction et Variations Brilliantes and the Grand Variations on Rule Britannia, which must have gone down a bomb in Hastings when first heard there.
classical by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
It's little wonder that so few people bother to turn out at local elections when we are 'rewarded' with posturing, posing tub-thumpers whose sole aim is to play party politics to the bemusement of us all.
Letter: Mailbag - Councillors in a black hole by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
 
 
 
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