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Rumocrat
Slang, Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a political opponent of the temperance movement.
See: Rummy
Quotations
1852
The same spirit, the same energy, the same determination, though at the expense of a few more lives, to perpetuate the horrid traffic, obtains among the Rumocrats from Sarnia to Gaspe.
1853
But lo! the rumocrats attempted to lynch Bro. Nowatt, as soon as he left the Hall.