gin rummy
noun1
Card games, Games A card-holding game and variant of rummy.
- What is your latest foible? / Is gin rummy more exquisite? / Is skiing more enjoyable?1943, “I'm A Stranger Here Myself”, Ogden Nash (lyrics), Kurt Weill (music):
- Having discovered a birthday in common, they began, as strangers do when thrown together in a novel circumstance, to seek other matching data in their life histories, like players at gin rummy seeking to fill out a run or three of a kind.1979, Mary McCarthy, Cannibals and Missionaries, A Novel:
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- That's what I was thinking, but then I remembered he'd never been to sea, that I'd only started calling him The Captain because he wore a captain's hat during a game of gin rummy at his grandmother's apartment one time while she was out of town.2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 118: