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rumdum

a. (context slang English) dulled or incapacitate by alcohol; unconscious; stupid. n. 1 (context slang English) An habitual drunkard; a stupid person. 2 A cocktail made from rum, applejack and lime juice.

Usage examples of "rumdum".

When you rub it, it murmurs monotonously like a rumdum running engine.

Not meaning to speak any ill of the dead, this particular woman was a lush, a boozehound, a gin-swilling, bourbon-belting, whiskey-guzzling rumdum of the first water.

Frazier, code name Rumdum, is a highly effective and covertly much-decorated undercover agent for the federal government.

For six weeks hewas a tramp, a thoroughly washed-out hopeless rumdum, with rheumy eyes and palsied hands and a weak bladder.

I see many more winos and rumdums and hopheads on the street than I remember, and furthermore there is garbage all over the place in big piles.

This rumdum, this Gresham Arnold, had long ago been a star basketball player for the Hemingford Rams, leading them to their first (and most likely last) high-school team championship.

Two years ago Gresham Arnold, a rumdum of some local repute, had come into the Red Wheel with a roll of quarters in his hand and a twenty dollar bill stuck into the band of his hat.