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

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

It had been more than a few days since I’d dropped it in the mailbox, before playing gin rummy with Mr. Scanlon.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen