drill team

noun

: an exhibition marching team that engages in precision drill

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The event features high-school marching bands, student-athletes, dance teams, drill teams, cheerleaders, floats, cars and fire trucks carrying politicians, union leaders and activists. Angel Doval, Miami Herald, 17 Jan. 2025 When: Saturday, Jan. 18 at 9 a.m. The city’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Parade will include 100+ community organizations, marching bands and step and drill teams. Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 15 Jan. 2025 The parade features floats, bands, drill teams, colleges and universities, fraternities, sororities, churches and civic and youth groups. Del Mar Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025 Rachel was the Physical Training Team Captain as a sophomore, Company Gunnery Sergeant, the S-3 Operations Chief, and a squad leader on the drill team as a junior and is now the Company Commander. Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for drill team 

Word History

First Known Use

1928, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of drill team was in 1928

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“Drill team.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drill%20team. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.

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