Someone starts saying a joke, and a person finishes it for you,. which kills the moment and rummying the situation
by Please Jack Mehoff III June 1, 2011
Get the Rummying mug.a drunk, someone who drinks too much (but not necessarily a terrible person). Frequently used by Ernest Hemingway in his novels, Hemingway was a “rummy” himself to an extent, however Hemingway tried to wait until the afternoon until he started drinking, as he felt drinking interrupted his writing.
“It would be pretty easy to be a rummy, wouldn’t it Eddy?”
“You’d never make a rummy. You like to work too well.”
- Islands in the Stream
“You’d never make a rummy. You like to work too well.”
- Islands in the Stream
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