RUMMY

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 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)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A chronic drinker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

drunk; drunkard; inebriate; rummy; sot; wino

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)

Sense 2

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)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected

Synonyms:

curious; funny; odd; peculiar; queer; rum; rummy; singular

Context example:

singular behavior

Similar:

strange; unusual (being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird)