rummy
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈrʌmi/
- Offensive
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borracho (despectivo)
- Mason sniffs and inhales the rummy smell of his father still sprawled drunk on the kitchen floor.
- an old rummy
Examples
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After years of struggle, he finally accepted that he was just another rummy in the neighborhood.
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We couldn't pick it up for my mother; she was a rummy, and Mr. Gray knew it.
Fiction book (1990) -
Or a rummy living on welfare in an SRO hotel in Queens?
Fiction book (1994) -
Ask any rummy on the dock... ...if I'm not good for a fin any time they put the arm on me.
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On the other hand, it might have fallen overboard... dropped there by some drunken old rummy one night.
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Mason sniffs his father's rummy smell, draws it up into him, and presses tighter against his grandmother.
Fiction book (1996) -
As Avery stood in the doorway, he saw a wrinkled crone leap back from riffling a rummy's pockets as he lay sleeping across a table.
Fiction book (1992) -
The old man was known as a rummy because he spent all his time at the bar every day.
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Many people in the city simply ignored the rummies sitting on the streets, lost in their bottles.
Synonyms
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3.5
A person who has too much alcohol in their body, either now or often
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1.8
A person who often drinks alcohol
41
4.7
Addicted to drinking alcohol
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8.9
A person who drinks a lot of cheap alcohol and often lives on the street
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5.5
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
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7.9
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
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9.4
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
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9.9
A person who often drinks too much and behaves foolishly
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9.9
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
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7.7
A person who drinks large amounts of alcohol very quickly
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9.9
A rude word for a person who often drinks too much alcohol
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8.3
A person who often drinks alcohol like wine or beer
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9.8
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
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9.2
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
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9.9
A slang word for alcohol or a person who drinks too much
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8.4
A person who drinks alcohol a lot
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
A person in a town who often drinks too much and people know it
A person who drinks alcohol too often and gets drunk
A person who drinks too much and always buys expensive alcohol
A person who drinks a lot of alcohol quickly
A person who drinks alcohol in big quick gulps
A person who drinks too much alcohol
Antonyms
Compounds
- US
5
3.4
A card game where players make sets and runs and end when leftover cards total under ten points
- Jargon
1
8.7
A rummy game where a player ends a round if unmatched cards total less than ten points
- US
A card game using two decks and four jokers where jokers and twos are wild and players form sets
How Addicted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word rummy for a heavy drinker likely comes from the drink rum or from old slang rum meaning 'odd', so people who drank too much were called a rummy. That's why a 'rummy' is used for someone who drinks habitually.