1. slang A useless drunkard. Sometimes hyphenated. This part of town is filled with addicts and rumdums.That old rum-dum hasn't held down a job in over 10 years. He's been too busy roaming from bar to bar.
2. slang A very stupid, bumbling, incompetent person. Sometimes hyphenated. I can't believe they appointed that rumdum to run the company.This device is so simple that even rum-dum like me can use it.
It might not be thought that at the height of the First World War a future British Prime Minister as Secretary of State for the Colonies would have given undivided attention to North Borneo's "Rumdum Rebellion," but a report is there in a handsomely bound volume.
Young Pete listened to his father spin romantic tales of Prohibition days with his cronies, speaking in a roguish way of gin mills and rumdums, reciting the lore that Protestants had passed the stupid law banning booze to stymie the appetites of Irish immigrants.
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