RUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rum mean? 

• RUM (noun)
  The noun RUM has 2 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: RUM used as a noun is rare.

• RUM (adjective)
  The adjective RUM has 1 sense:

1. beyond or deviating from the usual or expected

  Familiarity information: RUM used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUM (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

rum; rummy

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)

• RUM (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected

Synonyms:

curious; funny; odd; peculiar; queer; rum; rummy; singular

Context example:

singular behavior

Similar:

strange; unusual (being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird)

 Context examples 

My eye, won't some cook get a rum start when she sees his green eyes a-shining at her out of the dark!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The poor captain raised his eyes, and at one look the rum went out of him and left him staring sober.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

How many landsmen are there who would drink rum when they could get these other spirits?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I never saw a man so thoroughly enjoy himself amid the fragrance of lemon-peel and sugar, the odour of burning rum, and the steam of boiling water, as Mr. Micawber did that afternoon.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

’ sez I. ‘Yer should ’a been born a gentleman, an’ never ’ad to work for yer livin’.’ God strike me dead, ’Ump, if that ayn’t wot ’e sez, an’ me a-sittin’ there in ’is own cabin, jolly-like an’ comfortable, a-smokin’ ’is cigars an’ drinkin’ ’is rum.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Fanny, fatigued and fatigued again, was thankful to accept the first invitation of going to bed; and before Betsey had finished her cry at being allowed to sit up only one hour extraordinary in honour of sister, she was off, leaving all below in confusion and noise again; the boys begging for toasted cheese, her father calling out for his rum and water, and Rebecca never where she ought to be.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“A pretty rum go if squire ain't to talk for Dr. Livesey, I should think.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Is he the man who hobnobbed in rum and water with Black Peter in the dead of the night?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a dreadful old man to look at, in a filthy flannel waistcoat, and smelling terribly of rum.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was a man loved and honoured by all who knew him; and in his youth was, I have heard, the inventor of a burnt rum punch, much patronised on Derby night.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)