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rummy

[ruhm-ee] / ˈrʌm i /




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"I also lost to my daugher Sophia at cards over Christmas. We played rummy and I think she was cheating - a lot like AI, she was definitely getting some help from somewhere."

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026

Without much warning, these adults will suddenly start speaking in a cartoonish voice: Eric turns rummy as a mannered Brit named Charles, while Rachel murmurs as “Moopie-Moopie.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

"She always thinks of others first, and she stays positive no matter what, even when I beat her at our favorite game of gin rummy!"

From Fox News ● Dec. 28, 2021

On a suit of twos for rummy, he had printed the words, “Will you marry me?”

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2021

“Have you played gin rummy with another counselor before?”

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

No, not in dead mummies, indeed, but in living rummies.

From In the Sweet Dry and Dry by Bart Haley

This particular district was sharply split by the temperance party and the rummies.

From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee

There are two kinds of men—gentlemen and rummies.

From Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page

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

Half of each was composed of rummies and the other half of anti-rummies, after the moral and political share-and-share-alike fashion of the frontier town of the period.

From The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

And a lot I did think as I drove back to Nice, I do assure you—for a rummier game I had never been engaged in, and that's the truth, upon my word and honour.

From The Man Who Drove the Car by Sir Max Pemberton

It is the way he talks," said MacIan, almost indifferently; "but he says rummier things than that.

From The Ball and the Cross by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

But, good Lord! life for me has been made up of even rummier things than that, and now I’ve got to the end of it.

From The Red Derelict by Bertram Mitford

It was—and that on'y made it all the rummier!

From The Brass Bottle A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts by F. Anstey

“That ’ere ’ouse, guv’nor, is the rummiest I ever was in.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

I soon got to know a surprising lot of people, and they were the rummiest birds you can imagine.

From Mr. Standfast by John Buchan

"Well, of all the rum goes," said Tom, "this is the rummiest go I ever experienced!"

From Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories by Ralph Adams Cram

“It was the rummiest vehicle you ever saw,” he heard Jones say; “a cart, I assure you—nothing more or less, and drawn by the very scraggiest scarecrow of a blind horse.”

From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by H. C. (Harold C.) Earnshaw

The rummiest packet I ever set foot on," he admitted, "but she's a clinker.

From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman


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