1. A card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards
   "They played rummy for hours, keeping track of their scores";
   - rum
    
2. A person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
   "The rummy was a regular at the local bar";
   - alcoholic, alky [informal], dipsomaniac, boozer [informal], lush [N. Amer, informal], soaker [informal], souse [informal], alco [Austral], rumpot [N. Amer, informal], tosspot [informal], dipso [informal], winebibber [archaic], alkie [informal], drunkard, drunk, sot, inebriate, wino [informal]

1. Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
   "a rummy hybrid accent";
   - curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum [Brit, informal], singular

Derived forms: rummies, rummiest, rummier

See also: oddball, strange, unusual

Type of: card game, cards, drinker, imbiber [informal], juicer [N. Amer, informal], soak [informal], sponge [informal], toper [literary]

Encyclopedia: Rummy