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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
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, rummy, singular] n
1: a chronic drinker [syn: drunkard, drunk, rummy, sot, inebriate, wino]
2: a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards [syn: rummy, rum]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective (rummier; -est) Etymology: ²rum Date: 1828 queer, odd <feeling a little rummy from our trip up the escalator — New Yorker> II. noun (plural rummies) Etymology: ¹rum Date: 1851 drunkard III. noun Etymology: perhaps from ¹rummy Date: 1915 any of several card games for two or more players in which each player tries to assemble groups of three or more cards of the same rank or suit and to be the first to meld them all

Britannica Concise

Any of several card games for two or more players in which each player tries to assemble groups of three or more cards of the same rank or suit and to be the first to meld them all. Canasta is a type of rummy in which sequences are not permitted. See also gin rummy.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. a card-game played usu. with two packs, in which the players try to form sets and sequences of cards. Etymology: 20th c.: orig. unkn. 2. adj. Brit. colloq. = RUM(2).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rummy Rum"my, n.; pl. Rummies. One who drinks rum; an habitually intemperate person. [Low]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rummy Rum"my, a. [See Rum, a.] Strange; odd. [Slang]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Rummy is a card game in which players try to collect cards of the same value or cards in a sequence in the same suit.

Moby Thesaurus

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