rum
Pluralrums (some meanings)
Pluralrums (some meanings)
- 1A strong alcoholic drink made from sugar cane.
The bar serves drinks made with rum and fruit juice.
This cake recipe uses a spoonful of rum for flavor.
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- 3One type or brand of rum, different from other kinds.
The store sells rums from many different islands.
Her favorite rum comes from Cuba.
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- 6A card game where players collect matching cards, usually called rummy.
On rainy days, Grandpa taught us to play rum at the kitchen table.
She won three hands of rum in a row.
Similarrummy
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- 7Very good, fine, or worth a lot.
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- 8A church minister who serves a small country village.
The rum read the Sunday service to a dozen sleepy farmers.
No company comes / But a rabble of tenants, and rusty dull rums.
1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's BawnHere, rums means country priests serving small rural churches.Note
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Origins
In use since at least 1654, but no one is sure where it comes from. It may be a short form of words like rumbullion, or come from other older words.
From an older slang word rome meaning "good," possibly from Romani.
A short form of the word rummy.