The word "drum" to describe a home came about long before the style of music drum and bass. It's a great example of Reattachment - where a slang expression (not necessarily rhyming slang) gets reattached to a more modern phrase.
The word drum was originally used to describe a room or prison cell or even a road. It then became confined to only mean the home. Finally this was rhymed with Drum and Bass giving its modern interpretation.
Credit: contributed by
Danny
on
21-Apr-2000.
Ratings for
Drum and Bass
This slang has been rated:
Classic
445
times. Modern
53
times. Mockney
136
times.
