Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shop where intoxicating liquors are sold.
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Examples
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(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
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(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
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I presume likely 'twould end in his bein 'killed in some rumshop scrimmage later on.
Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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The rumshop turns the political crank in New York.
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'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
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'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
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'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 -- -- '
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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
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A schoolboy was shot while liming outside a rumshop on Friday night.
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