Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A card game, played in many variations, in which the object is to obtain sets of three or more cards of the same rank or suit.
- n. Slang A drunkard.
- adj. Chiefly British Odd, strange, or dangerous; rum.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to rum: as, a rummy flavor.
- Rum; queer.
- n. A drunkard; also one who favors the liquor traffic.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable a card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong.
- n. countable a rum-drinking alcoholic.
- adj. dated rum; peculiar; odd
- adj. Resembling or tasting of rum.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a
rummy flavor. - n. Low One who drinks rum; an habitually intemperate person.
- adj. Slang Strange; odd.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a chronic drinker
- adj. beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- n. a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“No matter how hard I try, I will never beat you at Scrabble, or gin rummy or any game, ever.”
I do believe my husband owes ME a press conference « Bored Mommy
“Curiously, Jamie and another important character play gin rummy instead.”
“Kashing get together with him continually to play gin rummy games.”
“Learned it from canasta and later from gin rummy — usage there is combining similar cards into a set.”
“The five-hour flight to Honolulu aboard a chartered 737 — one everyday travelers would fly on — hasn't even taken off, but Nelson and assistant coach Larry Riley, near the back of the jet, have christened the opening of gin rummy season.”
“Fucking rummy is beyond belief, the sooner he dies the better for the world and the better for the ruination of hell.”
“Cherry learned walking-around Spanish and became a crack gin rummy player.”
“We also played gin rummy with a deck of cards I made out of pieces of paper.”
“At least no one at Chrysler has volunteered one, except to inform me that he is a superb gin rummy player.”
“To think that what happened at abu greb didn’t come from at least rummy is to intentionally wear blinders.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rummy’.
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FUN - Jeeves and Wooster - Wooster
"Woosterisms" as heard from the character " Wooster" in P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves and Wooster" stories.
be potty about, be tutted at, biff, big fella, bit of a cropper, blighter, blot, By gee!, By gosh!, By gum!, chilled steel, chokey and 115 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Jazz Era
Swingin' and boppin' slang-a-lang.
mooche, moocher, kick the gong around, applesauce, the berries, hooch, juice joint, the john, rummy, screaming meemies, daddy, cokey and 66 more...
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Sot
a partaker of a dram too many. consult also whichbe's Drunkie list
sot, toper, drunkard, boozehound, tosspot, wino, lick-wimble, souse, lush, alky, juicer, inebriate and 47 more...
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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colleen's words ii
sibilant, sundry, spindle, distaff, device, mortar, pestle, scythe, flail, thresh, frown, elementary and 495 more...
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Nightmare Alley
From the novel by William Lindsay Gresham
geek, mark, rubber, calliope, booze-fool, rummy, the horrors, the crawling snakes, equalizer, bubbies, grubstake, softshoe and 99 more...
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Let's Play
Classic Children's Toys and Games and Amusements
colorforms, jacks, hopscotch, louisville slugger, duncan imperial, flexible flyer, radio flyer, troll doll, dam doll, pick-up sticks, silly putty, marbles and 155 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2050 more...
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arby's words
me default
shirty, kerfuffle, tenterhooks, susurrus, palimpsest, crimson, rufous, cicatrix, crepuscular, carapace, quaff, exanimate and 239 more...
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Olde Fashyned Slang
word, cracking, blotto, ankle, dewdropper, applesauce, bee's knees, bird, breezer, bubs, bum's rush, cake-eater and 36 more...
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adjectives
veritable, pejorative, pertinent, benign, gullible, specious, delinquent, evocative, delirious, snippy, pithy, lenient and 69 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for rummy.
yarb '"...nothing scares a real rummy like the chance of a dry spell and getting the horrors."'
- Nightmare Alley, William Lindsay Gresham Jun 29, 2012
arby or as in Donald Rumsfeld. May 6, 2007
colleen as in a card game, or an alcoholic. Mar 11, 2007