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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Rummy \Rum"my\, adjective Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Rummy \Rum"my\, noun; pl. {Rummies}.

1. One who drinks rum; an habitually intemperate person. [Low]

2, a game of cards.

{Gin rummy} a type of rummy.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Rummy \Rum"my\, adjective [See {Rum}, adjective] Strange; odd. [Slang]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

rummy

adjective

1: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "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" [syn: {curious}, {funny}, {odd}, {peculiar}, {queer}, {rum}, {singular}]

noun

1: a chronic drinker [syn: {drunkard}, {drunk}, {sot}, {inebriate}]

2: a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards [syn: {rum}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

32 Moby Thesaurus words for "rummy": bizarre, boozehound, boozer, bottle sucker, bum, curious, drunk, eccentric, elbow bender, ginhound, guzzler, hooch hound, inebriate, lush, lusher, odd, oddball, peculiar, queer, rum, rum hound, singular, soak, souse, sponge, stew, swillbelly, swillbowl, swiller, swillpot, tippler, wino

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