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 suit of twos for rummy, he had printed the words, “Will you marry me?”
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
He could be counted on to play gin rummy and dominoes, to bring us candy and soda, and to make Mami smile like she hadn’t done in a long time.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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
The rummies are down on you, Mr. Strong, you have been so outspoken against them; and your lecture in the hall last week has made them mad, I tell you.
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
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
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
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
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 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 little beggar," says Lord Burdon, introducing his small son.
From The Happy Warrior by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
I've seen pictures of a lot of these financiers and, believe me, they are the rummiest looking bunch I ever set eyes on!
From Bought and Paid For From the Play of George Broadhurst by George Howells Broadhurst
Wake’s got the rummiest jump you ever saw.
From The Master of the Shell by Talbot Baines Reed
