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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

During tough negotiations over a child care bill with Bob Packwood of Oregon, he challenged her to a game of gin rummy.

From New York Times Jan. 11, 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

Roberta later would take her own three children on similar long educational road trips, as well as regularly touring the world with Rowena while they continued a gin rummy game that reportedly lasted for decades.

From Reuters Oct. 12, 2020

MapleG: I like gin rummy, but my favorite card game is pinochle.

From "Doing Time Online" by Jan Siebold

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

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

There are two kinds of men—gentlemen and rummies.

From Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page

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

From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee

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

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

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

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

This is the rummiest studio that ever I was in!

From If Only etc. by Francis Clement Philips

And if he keeps true blue among this crew, then he's a Briton, I can tell yer, for they're the rummiest lot I've ever had.

From The Little Missis by Charlotte Skinner

“One of the rummiest meetings I ever had,” said he, smiling thoughtfully at the recollection, “was in the Swazie country in ’85.

From The Outspan Tales of South Africa by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick




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