Crossword clues for rummy
rummy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rummy \Rum"my\, a. Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.
Rummy \Rum"my\, n.; pl. Rummies. 1. One who drinks rum; an habitually intemperate person.
2, a game of cards.
Gin rummy a type of rummy.
Rummy \Rum"my\, a. [See Rum, a.] Strange; odd. [Slang]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
card game, 1910, rhummy, of unknown origin. Gin rummy is first attested 1941. Meaning "drunkard" is 1851, from rum (n.). Meaning "opponent of temperance" in U.S. politics is from 1860.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context dated English) peculiar; odd 2 Resembling or tasting of rum. n. 1 (context uncountable English) a card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong. 2 (context countable English) a rum-drinking alcoholic.
WordNet
adj. 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]
a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards [syn: rum]
Wikipedia
Rummy is a group of matching card games notable for similar gameplay based on matching cards of the same rank or sequence and same suit. The basic goal in any form of rummy is to build melds which consists of sets, three or four of a kind of the same rank; or runs, three or more cards in sequence, of the same suit. You can also have mixed runs in all types of rummy so long as all 7 cards are in order. The original form of rummy is called Sai rummy,Straight Rummy, Standard Rummy, Traditional Rummy or Basic rummy. The Mexican game of Conquian is considered by games scholar David Parlett to be ancestral to all rummy games, which itself is derived from a Chinese game called Khanhoo and, going even further back, Mahjong. The Rummy principle of drawing and discarding with a view to melding appears in Chinese card games at least in the early 19th century and perhaps as early as the 18th century and is, in fact, the essence of Mah-jong.
Rummy is a 2014 Indian Tamil romantic thriller film co-produced and directed by debutant Balakrishnan. It features Inigo Prabhakaran, Gayathrie in the lead roles while Vijay Sethupathi and Iyshwarya Rajesh in the supporting roles. The film was shot around Pudhukottai, Karaikudi and Thanjavur. It released on 31 January 2014 to moderate reviews.
Usage examples of "rummy".
I merely watch and, as I do so, I find myself unaccountably invaded by an intense happiness, such as I have not known since the far-off days of Rosie Pierpoint, of tennis lessons, of games of Rummy, of the gift of dinner napkins.
Christ, you almost get killed and these other two twenty-six year old rummies get swacked sucking up bourbon.
Lo Manto kept his back braced against the now riddled box, waving pedestrians away from the area, knowing he needed to move clear before Rummy got any closer.
Rummy emptied one of his guns firing at Lo Manto, bullets cascading around the fleeing cop, shattering glass, setting off car alarms, whizzing past him at all angles, one near-miss taking out the rear tire of a parked van.
Lo Manto looked across his shoulder at Rummy and then turned to glance at the approaching Stalli, who had yet to let off a shot.
Rummy was firing like a man on his last breath, spraying a stream of gunfire toward Lo Manto, each bullet inching its way closer to his body.
Elmo Stalli and John Rummy were now both on their feet, four car lengths away from Lo Manto, Pete Rossi still by his side.
Lo Manto peered over at him, watching him stride close enough to Rummy to take the hitter, his instincts dictating which way he turned, his movements slow and in control, like a gray cat walking after midnight.
It seems from what Schultz says that after Kunz returns to Germany, he misses his gin rummy no little as the game is practically unknown in his country where cardplayers generally favor pinochle or maybe klabriasch.
Take the rather rummy case, for instance, of dear old Bicky and his uncle, the hard-boiled egg.
It's rummy about these blighters, but they never seem able to understand a damn thing.
When it's laid, it's played they say when they're playing rummy or Crazy Eights and someone makes a goofy-ass discard.
Four hours later, As Andy and Charlie were sitting down to a game of five hundred rummy, the supper dishes washed and drying in the drainer, the letters were on Cap Hollister's desk.
She laid the hand of gin rummy face-down on the kitchen-smelling oilcloth, and did not know what he was raving about.
I know Jim Warrington, he drives one of the Sanford ambulances, and unless there's a car wreck on 95 he sits around and plays gin rummy all day.