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rumdum; rum-dumb
noun
a drunk US, 1891- It was too late all right. Too late for roaches or old Skid Row rumdumbs[.] — Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm, p. 25, 1949
- We get up there and sure enough there’s the rumdum, some old panhandler who when not mooching used to hang around the lions in front of the Public Library feeding the pigeons. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 266, 1954
- The rum-dumbs would yank themselves together and suddenly remember they’d eaten nothing in ten hours. — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 217, 1956
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