1. rum - Noun
2. rum - Adjective
3. rum - Adjective Satellite
4. Rum - Proper noun
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.
Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow.
A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe literate man is a sucker for propaganda... You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas. Marshall McLuhan
I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys. L. Ron Hubbard
The ploughman ploughs, the fisherman dreams of fish; Aloft, the sailor, through a world of ropes Guides tangled meditations, feverish With memories of girls forsaken, hopes Of brief reunions, new discoveries, Past rum consumed, rum promised, rum potential. Michael Hamburger
She's got a rum job, but she knows how to do it, and to have a job and know how to do it is one of the best things in this life. And if only she stops hankering after Cambridge... Arthur Ransome
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. Lord Byron
Godamighty mek man straight, a rum mek him can't ‘tan' up. Jamaican Proverb