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
The couple also played a lot of gin rummy.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 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
Hanks then told fans that Wilson had beat him in six straight hands of gin rummy.
From Fox News ● Mar. 28, 2020
“But I did play gin rummy with the school shrink the other day and I beat him.”
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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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 Sheldon, Charles Monroe
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 Francis, Stella M.
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 Day, Holman
There are two kinds of men—gentlemen and rummies.
From Writing for Vaudeville by Page, Brett
This particular district was sharply split by the temperance party and the rummies.
From Confessions of Boyhood by Albee, John
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 Pemberton, Max, Sir
It is the way he talks," said MacIan, almost indifferently; "but he says rummier things than that.
From The Ball and the Cross by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
It was—and that on'y made it all the rummier!
From The Brass Bottle A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts by Anstey, F.
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 Mitford, Bertram
“That ’ere ’ouse, guv’nor, is the rummiest I ever was in.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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Nat’ral hist’ry’s the rummiest thing as I knows on, and that there young Mr Lane, as is a nat’ralist by purfession, knows a wonderful lot about it.
From Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track by Fenn, George Manville
Wake’s got the rummiest jump you ever saw.
From The Master of the Shell by Reed, Talbot Baines
“This is the rummiest proposal that was ever made!”
From The Love Affairs of Pixie by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
"Yes! those old pirate chaps certainly did think up some of the rummiest names."
From Pieces of Eight by Le Gallienne, Richard