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Rummy

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Noun

1. drunk, drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino

a chronic drinker

2. rum, rummy

a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards

Adjective

3. curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular

beyond or deviating from the usual or expected

Example Sentences:
'a curious hybrid accent'
'her speech has a funny twang'
'they have some funny ideas about war'
'had an odd name'
'the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves'
'something definitely queer about this town'
'what a rum fellow'
'singular behavior'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Rummy

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noun
a card game based on collecting sets and sequences
adjective
another word for rum2
noun plural -mies
1. US and Canadian a slang word for drunkard
adjective
2. 
of or like rum in taste or smell

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Rummy

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adjectiveWord forms: ˈrummier or ˈrummiest
1.  British, Informal
odd; strange; queer
noun US
2. 
a card game, played in many variations, in which the object is to match cards into sets of the same denomination or sequences of the same unit
nounWord forms: plural ˈrummies
1.  US, Slang
a drunkard
adjectiveWord forms: ˈrummier or ˈrummiest
2. 
of or like rum

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Rummy

see synonyms of rummy
n.
A card game, played in many variations, in which the object is to obtain melds of three or more cards of the same rank or three or more consecutive cards of the same suit.
n. pl. rum·mies
Slang
A drunkard.
adj. rum·mi·er, rum·mi·est
Chiefly British
Odd, strange, or dangerous; rum.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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