Thesaurus: rum

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1. 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.
2. a. Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow.
3. n. A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson.
4. adj. beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
5. n. liquor distilled from fermented molasses
6. n. a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards
7. A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scumming 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. Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow. [Slang] Dickens. A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson. [Slang, Obs.] Swift.
8. A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, orfrom the scumming of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses,or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes usedcolloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicatingliquor. Rum bud, a grog blossom. [Colloq.] -- Rum shrub, a drinkcomposed of rum, water, sugar, and lime juice or lemon juice, withsome flavoring extract.
9. j:4/n:96 n. liquor distilled from fermented molasses