rum

adj : beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious

hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they

have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name";

"the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something

definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow";

"singular behavior" [syn: {curious}, {funny}, {odd}, {peculiar},

{queer}, {rummy}, {singular}]

n 1: distilled from fermented molasses

2: a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the

winner is the first to meld all their cards [syn: {rummy}]

drum

Ancient slow, cylindrical magnetic media that were once

state-of-the-art storage devices. Under {BSD} {Unix} the disk

partition used for swapping is still called "/dev/drum"; this

has led to considerable humour and not a few straight-faced

but utterly bogus "explanations" getting foisted on {newbie}s.

See also "{The Story of Mel}".

(1994-12-22)