A shortened form of beirut, the world's greatest drinking game.
Pete: "Something's fishy here."
George: "Yeah, we need to get to the root of this problem."
Alcoholic in the corner: "WHAT!?! Did someone say 'rut? I'm playing!"
Pete: "He means 'root' as in the kind that grows on trees."
Alcoholic: "Oh." (passes out)
1. Textual sound made by a drummer in a children's book published in early 1970s with interesting psuedo-psychadelic pictures.
2. Short smooth wooden stick or pole, 2.5 to 3 inches in length, approximately a half-inch in diamter, painted in red and black swirl stripes, like the pattern of a common candy-cane, with no particular use.
3. The beginning of a childishly humorous phrase often voiced by young gradeschool-aged children, which procedes "... I found my butt inside of a liberty gut."