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UK dialectal (chiefly Cockney); rum (“strange, peculiar”) + go (“incident, occurrence”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
rum go
Today it means: A peculiar, surprising, and/or confusing event, thing, etc. Full definition →
Today it means: A peculiar, surprising, and/or confusing event, thing, etc. Full definition →
UK dialectal (chiefly Cockney); rum (“strange, peculiar”) + go (“incident, occurrence”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.