rummy
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In his Jeeves stories, Bertie Wooster is briefly employed by a magazine called Milady's Boudoir, which was housed "in one of those rummy streets in the Covent Garden neighbourhood".
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 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
"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
Sometimes we play a few hands of gin rummy before bed.
From "Doing Time Online" by Jan Siebold
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 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.
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
I was walkin' in my sleep as nice as you please when those rummies lep' on me.
From Going Some by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
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 was—and that on'y made it all the rummier!
From The Brass Bottle A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts by Anstey, F.
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)
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
It's a rum case," said the superintendent, rising, "and if you don't mind my saying so, Mr. Beale, you're one of the rummiest men that figure in it.
From The Green Rust by Wallace, Edgar
He's one of the rummiest little beggars you ever saw; rather like an elderly jockey who's got into parliament.
From Peter Binney A Novel by Marshall, Archibald
I soon got to know a surprising lot of people, and they were the rummiest birds you can imagine.
From Mr. Standfast by Buchan, John
You know that room was the rummiest thing.
From The Secret City by Walpole, Hugh, Sir
