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rum shop

noun

, Chiefly Caribbean.
  1. a tavern or shop selling liquor.


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It is displayed on the 17th of March in nearly every rum shop, gambling hell, and thieves' den in New York.

There is a little grocery, a rum shop, a town, and by and by a city.

The act-drop fell, and male Denver, wrung to its religious deeps, went out to the rum-shop.

A pale face would be as much out of place in an American rum shop as a strawberry patch in an alkaline desert.

One of those chaps that are hanging round Tibbett's rum shop out at the Corners.

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