Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A shop where intoxicating liquors are sold.

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Examples

  • (Most distillers have their own Web sites; a good introductory site with a great deal of information is www. rumshop.net.) « Previous Page

    Sweet Home Louisiana 2005

  • (Most distillers have their own Web sites; a good introductory site with a great deal of information is www. rumshop.net.)

    Sweet Home Louisiana 2005

  • I presume likely 'twould end in his bein 'killed in some rumshop scrimmage later on.

    Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • The rumshop turns the political crank in New York.

    XVIII. The Reign of Rum 1890

  • 'Fifteen hundred devils!' cried I, 'FIVE hundred would rot his principles, paralyze his industry, drag him to the rumshop, thence to the gutter, thence to the almshouse, thence to ----'

    Life on the Mississippi, Part 7. Mark Twain 1872

  • 'Fifteen hundred devils!' cried I, 'FIVE hundred would rot his principles, paralyze his industry, drag him to the rumshop, thence to the gutter, thence to the almshouse, thence to ----'

    Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872

  • 'Fifteen hundred devils! 'cried I,' FIVE hundred would rot his principles, paralyze his industry, drag him to the rumshop, thence to the gutter, thence to the almshouse, thence to -- -- '

    Life on the Mississippi 1870

  • The long rant, devoid of real substance and unfit for rumshop vituperation, appears to be the product of a paralytic mind (s) unable to adjust to the shifting sands of reality.

    Barbados Underground 2010

  • A schoolboy was shot while liming outside a rumshop on Friday night.

    TrinidadExpress Today's News 2008

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