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Rummy   /rˈəmi/   Listen
Rummy

noun
(pl. rummies)
1.
A chronic drinker.  Synonyms: drunk, drunkard, inebriate, sot, wino.
2.
A card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards.  Synonym: rum.



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"Rummy" Quotes from Famous Books



... good place," she announced, and paused. "An' decent people, though rummy." Then, as the boy did not answer, "The best thing we can do is stay 'ere, if ...
— True Tilda • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... in a cottage on the moor itself. Fancy what fun it would be to race right out first thing in the morning when you woke up, and see all the creatures waking up too—rabbits scuttering about, and the wild birds, and the frogs, and rummy creatures like that, that live ...
— Miss Mouse and Her Boys • Mrs. Molesworth



Words linked to "Rummy" :   card game, unusual, soaker, canasta, toper, imbiber, dipsomaniac, strange, lush, gin, drinker, meld, juicer, alcoholic, cards, souse, alky, boozer



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