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means A spicy, clean-smelling aftershave and skin tonic traditionally made by distilling or steeping bay (myrcia) leaves in rum or alcohol.

from Born in the Caribbean, where distillers soaked the aromatic leaves of the West Indian bay tree (Pimenta racemosa, no relation to bay laurel) in rum to make a fragrant wash. Sailors and traders carried the custom home, and by the 1800s American and European barbers had adopted bay rum as the signature splash of a fresh shave — the rum base eventually swapped out for plain alcohol in most commercial versions, but the name, and the salty, spiced swagger, stuck.