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Rum n. A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scummings of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor.
Rum bud, a grog blossom. [Colloq.]
Rum shrub, a drink composed of rum, water, sugar, and lime juice or lemon juice, with some flavoring extract.
Rum, a. Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow. [Slang]
Rum, n. A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson. [Slang, Obs.]
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adj : beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious
hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they
have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name";
"the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something
definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow";
"singular behavior" [syn: curious, funny, odd, peculiar,
queer, rummy, singular]
n 1: distilled from fermented molasses
2: a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the
winner is the first to meld all their cards [syn: rummy]