rummy
ruh mee
- n a chronic drinker
- n a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards
- s beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- But by the end of the scene his bluster has revealed Osborne as a malingerer, a rummy and a jerk; his prickly panache is simply the spy's cover that everyone who works with him has .
- As McCourt recalls in a spunky, bittersweet memoir called Angela's Ashes (Scribner; 364 pages; $24), his dad was both a kindly parent and a world-class rummy.
- Bridge was almost eclipsed and so was gin rummy.