<B>rummy</B> (1), adjective, <B>-mier,</B> <B>-miest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) odd; strange. <BR> <I>Ex. There seemed to be some rummy mystery about his absence (A. S. M. Hutchinson).</I> </DL>
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<B>rummy</B> (2), noun, verb, <B>-mied,</B> <B>-mying.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a card game in which points are scored by melding sets of three or four cards of the same rank or sequences of three or more cards of the same suit. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to end the game by using or discarding the last card in one's hand. </DL>
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<B>rummy</B> (3), noun, pl. <B>-mies,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> (U.S. Slang.) a drunkard. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or like rum. <BR> <I>Ex. a rummy flavor.</I> </DL>
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<B>rumor, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a story or statement talked of as news without any proof that it is true. <BR> <I>Ex. The rumor spread that a new school would be built here. The rumor of what had happened ... had spread about the premises (Arnold Bennett).</I> (SYN) report. <DD><B> 2. </B>vague, general talk, not based on definite knowledge. <BR> <I>Ex. Rumor has it that the new girl went to school in France. According to the rumor of the times, she may have been a daughter of Lord Byron (Time).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Archaic.) reputation; fame. <BR> <I>Ex. Great is the rumour of this dreadful knight (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) confused noise; din. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to tell or spread by rumor. <BR> <I>Ex. It was rumored that the government was going to increase taxes.</I> noun <B>rumorer.</B> </DL>
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<B>rumormonger, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who spreads rumors. </DL>
<B>rump, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the hind part of the body of an animal, where the legs join the back. <DD><B> 2. </B>a cut of beef from this part. <DD><B> 3. </B>the corresponding part of the human body; buttocks. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) <DD><B> a. </B>an unimportant or inferior part; remnant. <DD><B> b. </B>a parliament, assembly, or other legislative body having only a remnant of its former membership because of the departure, expulsion, or resignation of a large number of its members. <DD><I>adj. </I> small; unimportant; inferior, as of a splinter group. <BR> <I>Ex. Both were named by acclamation at a rump convention of southern Democrats (Milwaukee Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>Rump, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the Long Parliament in England after the exclusion, in December, 1648, of about 100 members who favored compromise with King Charles I. <BR> <I>Ex. The Rump alone was left to stand for the old tradition of Parliament (Henry Morley).</I> </DL>
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<B>rumpbone, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the bone of the rump; sacrum. </DL>
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<B>rumple, </B>verb, <B>-pled,</B> <B>-pling,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to crumple; crush; wrinkle. <BR> <I>Ex. a rumpled sheet of paper. Don't play in your best dress; you'll rumple it.</I> (SYN) pucker, crease. <DD><B> 2. </B>to tousle; disorder. <BR> <I>Ex. to rumple up hair.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to become wrinkled, crumpled, or disordered. (SYN) pucker, crease. <DD><I>noun </I> a wrinkle; crease. </DL>
<B>rumpot, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) a drunkard. <BR> <I>Ex. I had hysterical thoughts of Henry Fielding's wonderful rumpot, Squire Western, roaring in on the scene (Maclean's).</I> </DL>
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<B>Rump Parliament,</B> =Rump.</DL>
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<B>rumpus, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a noisy disturbance; row. <BR> <I>Ex. He ... knocked down so many students and easels and drawingboards ... and made such a terrific rumpus (George du Maurier).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>noise; uproar. <BR> <I>Ex. The affair caused considerable rumpus.</I> </DL>
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<B>rumpus room,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a room in a house, often in the basement, set apart for parties, games, or other recreation. <BR> <I>Ex. ... a gaudy rumpus room, the ceilings decorated with Venetian carnival masks (Saturday Review).</I> </DL>
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<B>rumrunner, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a person or ship that smuggles alcoholic liquor into a country. </DL>
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<B>rumrunning, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the act of smuggling alcoholic liquor. <DD><I>adj. </I> that smuggles alcoholic liquor. </DL>
