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RUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards
Synonyms:
rum; rummy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("rum" is a kind of...):
card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rum"):
gin; gin rummy; knock rummy (a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points)
basket rummy; canasta; meld (a form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to form groups of the same rank)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Liquor distilled from fermented molasses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("rum" is a kind of...):
booze; hard drink; hard liquor; John Barleycorn; liquor; spirits; strong drink (an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rum"):
grog (rum cut with water)
demerara; demerara rum (dark rum from Guyana)
Jamaica rum (heavy pungent rum from Jamaica)
Holonyms ("rum" is a substance of...):
daiquiri; rum cocktail (a cocktail made with rum and lime or lemon juice)
swizzle (any of various tall frothy mixed drinks made usually of rum and lime juice and sugar shaken with ice)
hot toddy; toddy (a mixed drink made of liquor and water with sugar and spices and served hot)
Tom and Jerry (hot rum toddy with a beaten egg)
zombi; zombie (several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur)
planter's punch (a cocktail made of rum and lime or lemon juice with sugar and sometimes bitters)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
Example:
singular behavior
Synonyms:
curious; funny; odd; peculiar; queer; rum; rummy; singular
Classified under:
Similar:
strange; unusual (being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird)
Context examples:
You have been drinking rum; you have had a stroke, precisely as I told you; and I have just, very much against my own will, dragged you headforemost out of the grave.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Yes,” said Holmes; “I think that both inferences are permissible. Was there any other spirit but rum in the room?”
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Of the clergyman and clerk appearing; of a few boatmen and some other people strolling in; of an ancient mariner behind me, strongly flavouring the church with rum; of the service beginning in a deep voice, and our all being very attentive.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“Three goes o' rum! Why, shiver my timbers, if I hadn't forgotten my score!”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The amazing strength, the skill in the use of the harpoon, the rum and water, the sealskin tobacco-pouch with the coarse tobacco—all these pointed to a seaman, and one who had been a whaler.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But I apprehend that we were personally fortunate in engaging a servant with a taste for cordials, who swelled our running account for porter at the public-house by such inexplicable items as quartern rum shrub (Mrs. C.); Half-quartern gin and cloves (Mrs. C.); Glass rum and peppermint (Mrs. C.)—the parentheses always referring to Dora, who was supposed, it appeared on explanation, to have imbibed the whole of these refreshments.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“Now, mind you,” said the doctor, “I clear my conscience—the name of rum for you is death.”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The fact that the crime was committed at two in the morning, and yet Peter Carey was fully dressed, suggested that he had an appointment with the murderer, which is borne out by the fact that a bottle of rum and two dirty glasses stood upon the table.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Jim,” says he, “rum”; and as he spoke, he reeled a little, and caught himself with one hand against the wall.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
