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# rummy

«rummy» in Mova's school dictionary: **a card game where you try to collect sets (like three…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (rummy — a card game, uncountable); adjective (rummy — old UK informal, «odd»)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Rummy is a card game where you try to collect sets (like three kings) and runs (like 4, 5, 6 of hearts). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rummy/#m1)

2) (old-fashioned, UK informal) Rummy means strange or odd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rummy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life families play rummy at home or on holiday; it helps with matching, sorting and counting. Phrases: «play rummy», «gin rummy».

### examples

- Let's play rummy after dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rummy/#x1)
- Grandad always wins at rummy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rummy/#x2)
- In rummy you collect runs and sets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rummy/#x3)
- A run in rummy is three or more cards in order of the same suit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rummy/#x4)
- Gin rummy is played by two people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rummy/#x5)
- That's a rummy business! (old-fashioned) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rummy/#x6)

### note

Uncountable as a game: «play rummy» (not «a rummy»). Not related to the drink rum in meaning. Card games like rummy practise ordering numbers and grouping.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rummy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rummy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.