rummy
noun
any of various card games for two, three, or four players, each usually being dealt seven, nine, or ten cards, in which the object is to match cards into sets and sequences.
rummies
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pluralof rummy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Cap'n Sproul and me ain't rummies, and you can't make it out so, not even if you stand here and talk till you spit feathers.
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day
I was walkin' in my sleep as nice as you please when those rummies lep' on me.
From Going Some by Rex Ellingwood Beach
Yes, Mr. Strong, and I tell you the rummies will almost hold a prayer-meeting when you leave Milton.
From The Crucifixion of Philip Strong by Charles Monroe Sheldon
No, not in dead mummies, indeed, but in living rummies.
From In the Sweet Dry and Dry by Bart Haley
If they wanted to call us a lot of rummies, they couldn't do it as effectively by the use of direct language.
From Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains or, A Christmas Success against Odds by Stella M. Francis
