Noun: rum rúm
Usage: Brit, informal
- Liquor distilled from fermented molasses
"The bartender used dark rum to make a Mai Tai"
- A card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards
"Grandmother taught us how to play rum";
- rummy
Usage: Brit, informal
- Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
"what a rum fellow";
- curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rummy [Brit, archaic, informal], singular
Derived forms: rummer, rummest, rums
See also: oddball, strange, unusual
Type of: card game, cards, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn [informal], liquor, spirit [Brit], spirits [Brit], strong drink
Part of: daiquiri, hot toddy, planter's punch, rum cocktail, swizzle, toddy, Tom and Jerry, zombi, zombie
Encyclopedia: Rum, Sodomy & the Lash