(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.
(a.) Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow.
(n.) A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now she also dabbles in playwriting and rap, and is in the band Sound of Rum .
(2) I DJed the Rum Runner every Tuesday, but it was really interesting every night.
(3) • The Film weekly podcast saw host Jason Solomons talk to ... Bruce Robinson (director of Withnail & I) about his new film The Rum Diary ... Errol Morris (director of The Thin Blue Line) about Tabloid - his documentary on Joyce McKinney and the "Manacled Morman" case ... and Guardian film critic Xan Brooks (director of people to decent movies), who helped Jason review Arthur Christmas , The Awakening and Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights .
(4) It’s been a very rum version of an open and transparent process.
(5) After all who wants democracy when you could have the perfect rum baba?
(6) In Brittany we like to add rum to everything – people in the navy used to bring it back from the French Caribbean – but it's optional here.
(7) Bow-tied waitresses in miniskirts deliver high-ball rums to men in suits while heavily-painted women sip champagne from their positions on the sidelines.
(8) Islands such as San Salvador, Cat Island and Rum Cay were expected to experience the most significant effects later in the day and Friday as the storm begins an expected shift toward the north, forecasters said.
(9) Photograph: Jon Tonks for the Guardian Councillors approved Hay-Smith's plans, and knocked back Tesco's, in March 2010 – but then things took another rum turn.
(10) This was followed by visits to Cuba by John Kerry , the US secretary of state, and later by Obama himself , then the resumption of commercial flights and the lifting of restrictions on Cuban rum and cigars .
(11) It seemed to me that it's pretty basic that when women make up half the population it seems a bit rum to have only just over a quarter of them in the top 10% of earnings.
(12) The Rum Diary is a ramshackle jalopy of a movie, a bumpy ride that yields amusements and diversions here and there, and several interesting or loopy performances – including Aaron Eckhart as a slick resort developer Depp takes a dislike to, and Giovanni Ribisi as some breed of alcoholic Nazi-idolator.
(13) Among the individual flavors sweetened with 0.025% sodium saccharin, rum, strawberry and raspberry proved to be the most acceptable.
(14) Contact the marketing departments for gin, vodka, whiskey and rum brands, and offer them publicity via your social media, or a couple of places at your supper club in exchange for some free stock to serve a welcome drink for your guests.
(15) The Ivory Coast may like to be known as Côte d'Ivoire but they're having a rum old time trying to convince anyone to actually do so – in Spain they call it the Costa de Marfil , in Germany they prefer Elfenbeinküste , in Italy it's Costa d'Avorio , in Norway it's Elfenbenskysten and in Hungary it's Elefántcsontpart .
(16) Withdrawal from alcohol (ethanol, ethyl alcohol) or other general sedatives leads to progressive hyperactivity that progresses from tremulousness, sleep disturbance, and hallucinosis, to the more serious rum fits and delirium tremens (DTs).
(17) Among them: “I can imitate Janis Joplin after two rums.
(18) We end our conversation with his party's rum assortment of allies in the European parliament , and another chance to rummage through more arcane rightwing parties that do their thing in Brussels: among them, Helsinki's own True Finns, and the United Poland party.
(19) There are other can't-miss-cocktails, with mezcal, whiskey, and rum bases, if tequila is not your poison.
(20) The vector, Culex quinquefasciatus (Say), breeds mostly in and around numerous rum distilleries, located exclusively around the periphery of the city, and this undoubtedly accounts for the higher prevalence and intensity of infection among suburban dwellers.
Tequila
Definition:
(n.) An intoxicating liquor made from the maguey in the district of Tequila, Mexico.
Example Sentences:
(1) She joined us for tequilas at her restaurant in Matamoros; by the time the coffees had arrived, she had gone over to Brownsville to get changed, drop her kids off with her parents, and returned.
(2) Any tariff we can levy they can levy.” Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) Simply put, any policy proposal which drives up costs of Corona, tequila, or margaritas is a big-time bad idea.
(3) Celebrities from George Clooney to Justin Timberlake have launched upmarket tequila brands.
(4) 189 St John's Hill, SW11, 020 7978 7115 thefishclub.com Wahaca Last year's winner continues to impress with its tacos and tequila - and everything in between.
(5) Nevertheless, none of the organisms were completely eliminated as a result of freezing for 24 hours followed by melting in any of the test drinks, even when the drink was 86-proof tequila.
(6) As burly security men hung back and the promoters sat silently by, Chisora marched on Haye, who gritted his teeth, held on to what those close to him say was a bottle of Desperados, a pale German lager tinged with tequila, and threw an inspired right hand that cracked into the side of Chisora's jaw.
(7) For a bit of a performance, order a Trailblazer (tequila, vanilla, orange and chocolate) and watch award-winning Aussie bartender Nick literally play with fire.
(8) Some of them are from former MTV reality star and burgeoning space angel devil warrior symbologist Tila Tequila and some are from former Alaska governor Sarah Palin .
(9) The food's good, and on a cold morning-after-the-night-before you can easily justify popping in to sup an ocho coco – a mix of tequila, coconut liqueur, passionfruit, coriander, ginger and lime to help the hangover.
(10) Some investors may have concerns about the delayed profitability of the asset-swap deal, said Carroll, adding, “good brands don’t come cheap and arguably [and] the longer term potential of Don Julio looks very positive.” Ivan Menezes, Diageo’s chief executive, said: “We have secured our position in the growing super and ultra-premium segments of the tequila category and further strengthened our global footprint by expanding our leading position in Mexico where the growth of spirits has great potential.
(11) There are other can't-miss-cocktails, with mezcal, whiskey, and rum bases, if tequila is not your poison.
(12) Parrillada (mixed grill) and pollo asado (roast chicken) are matched with an extensive drinks menu focused on rum and tequila.
(13) Bushmills has also been outsold by tequila: it earned Diageo £57m last year, while Don Julio was worth £105m.
(14) In a wide-ranging interview published today, the 63-year-old veteran of tequila breakfasts and drug marathons described how he once sampled his father's ashes mixed with cocaine.
(15) Forget tequila and mezcal, Mexico’s oldest alcoholic drink is pulque , made from the fermented sap of an agave plant.
(16) The party hordes who filled Cancún’s bars and beaches for spring break last month were apparently mixing tequila with Donald Trump Kool-Aid and insulting their hosts.
(17) You can, of course, substitute the soda water with a smaller amount of tequila.
(18) And we'll live on ice cream and blueberry truffles and pancakes dripping with molasses, washed down with tequila slammers and absinthe.
(19) This alcohol-stuffed shrine to his career also contains skull-shaped bottles of tequila, which he calls “Nick Davies” after the Guardian reporter who exposed the phone-hacking scandal.
(20) The new generation of young adults may be less interested in drinking than their parents, but adolescence and alcohol go together like tequila and dry heaving, so it's hard to believe that suddenly we all just "know better".