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Quotation dates: 1984-1997
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DRUM, prop. n. the Drum, Informal name for Drumchapel, now a suburb of Glasgow with a large housing scheme.Gsw. 1984 James Kelman The Busconductor Hines 32:
You trying to tell me you got a haircut once a month! Suavity; aye. A smooth team so we are. The Drum's a debonair district. Keech. Is it fuck keech; there was always somebody needing a haircut; the rest of us just sloped along for the outing. Gsw. 1987 Peter Mason C'mon Geeze Yer Patter! 14:
That's yon new laud o' her's fae the Drum. That's her latest boyfriend from Drumchapel.Gsw. 1993 Herald 20 Aug 16:
There were greater horrors to come, though. The greater horrors were Castlemilk, the Drum, Nitshill, Easterhouse, Possil, many more: bywords for deprivation and disaster.Gsw. 1997 David Crooks in Susie Maguire and David Jackson Young Hoots! 43:
'Naw,' he says, 'I come fae Outer Space, ye know.'
Well ah thought he wis jokin. Ah mean, who wouldny? So ah says, 'Ah come fae the Drum. Same thing, intit?'
'Naw,' he says, ah'm serious.'
