RUMMY
Dictionary entry overview: What does rummy mean?
• RUMMY (noun)
The noun RUMMY has 2 senses:
1. a chronic drinker
2. a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards
Familiarity information: RUMMY used as a noun is rare.
• RUMMY (adjective)
The adjective RUMMY has 1 sense:
1. beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
Familiarity information: RUMMY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• RUMMY (noun)
Meaning:
A chronic drinker
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
wino; sot; rummy; inebriate; drunkard; drunk
Hypernyms ("rummy" is a kind of...):
drinker; imbiber; juicer; toper (a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rummy"):
alcoholic; alky; boozer; dipsomaniac; lush; soaker; souse (a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually)
Meaning:
A card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
rum; rummy
Hypernyms ("rummy" is a kind of...):
card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rummy"):
gin; gin rummy; knock rummy (a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points)
basket rummy; canasta; meld (a form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to form groups of the same rank)
• RUMMY (adjective)
Meaning:
Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
Synonyms:
rummy; rum; queer; peculiar; curious; funny; singular; odd
Context examples:
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
Similar:
strange; unusual (being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird)
