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rummies

rummies is the plural of rummy.

Meaning of rummy

Noun (1)

rummy (usually uncountable, plural rummies)

  1. (usually) A card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong.

Noun (2)

rummy (plural rummies)

  1. A rum-drinking alcoholic.
    • No one has forgotten Frank Dodd, the crossing guard who went crazy here twelve years ago and killed those women, and they haven't forgotten the dog, either, the one that came down with rabies and killed Joe Camber and the old rummy down the road from him.1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

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Questions about rummies

What is rummies the plural of?
Rummies is the plural of rummy.

Words near rummies in the dictionary

  1. rummeries
  2. rummers
  3. rummery
  4. rummest
  5. rummier
  6. rummies
  7. rummiest
  8. rummily
  9. rumminess
  10. rummish
  11. Rummler

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rummies (page history and authors); rummy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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