Food lovers try with rums and nuts (9)

I believe the answer is:

gourmands

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'food lovers' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'try with rums and nuts' is the wordplay.
'try' becomes 'go' (both can mean an attempt).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'nuts' indicates an anagram (nuts can mean crazy).
'rums'+'and'='rumsand'
'rumsand' is an anagram of 'urmands'.
'go'+'urmands'='GOURMANDS'

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