Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to rum: as, a rummy flavor.
- Rum; queer.
- noun A drunkard; also one who favors the liquor traffic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a
rummy flavor. - noun Low One who drinks rum; an habitually intemperate person.
- adjective Slang Strange; odd.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable a card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to
mahjong . - noun countable a
rum -drinkingalcoholic . - adjective dated
rum ;peculiar ;odd - adjective Resembling or tasting of
rum .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a chronic drinker
- adjective beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- noun a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards
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Examples
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Kashing get together with him continually to play gin rummy games.
Batin Itam: The Li Blood Line admin 2009
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Kashing get together with him continually to play gin rummy games.
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
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Curiously, Jamie and another important character play gin rummy instead.
Timing the Moon 2009
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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 2010
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Learned it from canasta and later from gin rummy — usage there is combining similar cards into a set.
The Volokh Conspiracy » To Meld — What Does “Meld” Mean? 2010
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Curiously, Jamie and another important character play gin rummy instead.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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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.
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Fucking rummy is beyond belief, the sooner he dies the better for the world and the better for the ruination of hell.
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Cherry learned walking-around Spanish and became a crack gin rummy player.
Cherry, Fred V. 1999
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We also played gin rummy with a deck of cards I made out of pieces of paper.
Bates, Richard L. 1977
colleen commented on the word rummy
as in a card game, or an alcoholic.
March 11, 2007
arby commented on the word rummy
or as in Donald Rumsfeld.
May 6, 2007
yarb commented on the word rummy
'"...nothing scares a real rummy like the chance of a dry spell and getting the horrors."'
- Nightmare Alley, William Lindsay Gresham
June 30, 2012