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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…

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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. j:4/n:96 n. liquor distilled from fermented molasses