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Adjective: rum (rummer,rummest)  rúm
Usage: Brit
  1. Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
    "what a rum fellow"
    - curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rummy, singular
Noun: rum  rúm
  1. Liquor distilled from fermented molasses
     
  2. A card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards
    - rummy

Sounds like: rhumb

Derived forms: rummest, rummer, rums

See also: strange, unusual

Type of: booze, card game, cards, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, liquor, spirits [Brit], strong drink

Part of: daiquiri, hot toddy, planter's punch, rum cocktail, swizzle, toddy, Tom and Jerry, zombi, zombie

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