rummy
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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
A friendship blossoms thanks to a shared affection for gin rummy, but Jones slowly reveals Fish’s tenderness, the possibility of romance spreading out in front of him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
On a recent afternoon, Russian-speaking immigrants, many of them retirees, played dominoes and rummy at picnic tables in West Hollywood’s Plummer Park, nicknamed Gorky Park after Moscow’s famous green space.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2022
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
“Have you played gin rummy with another counselor before?”
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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
This particular district was sharply split by the temperance party and the rummies.
From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee
If they wanted to call us a lot of rummies, they couldn't do it as effectively by the use of direct language.
From Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains or, A Christmas Success against Odds by Stella M. Francis
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
No, not in dead mummies, indeed, but in living rummies.
From In the Sweet Dry and Dry by Bart Haley
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
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 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
“That ’ere ’ouse, guv’nor, is the rummiest I ever was in.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
It's the rummiest yarn I ever heard, but I don't see as how you could make it up.
From The Sweep Winner by Nat Gould
It was the rummiest weather I ever see.
From Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral by Anonymous
"Well, this is the rummiest go I have ever known," said the explosive man profoundly.
From Bones in London by Edgar Wallace
"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
