RUM


Meaning of RUM in English

n. 1 a spirit distilled from sugar-cane residues or molasses. 2 US intoxicating liquor. rum baba see BABA.

[ 17th c.: perh. abbr. of contemporary forms rumbullion, rumbustion, of unkn. orig. ]

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