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rummy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | rum |
| Type of | card game, cards |
| Has types | gin rummy, meld, knock rummy, canasta, basket rummy, gin |
Examples of rummy
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The tour ended three days later with tennis and gin rummy on a Wednesday evening.
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Nine months later they married, and 60 years later they still play gin rummy.
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After my long drive, however, I just wanted to sit with a rummy mai tai in my hand.
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She didn't go out much after December, but she loved her gin rummy on Yahoo!
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Sam Adams Black is exceptionally smooth, with a rummy, molasses-like taste.
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However, it is much more similar to Western-style card games such as rummy.
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They are cut-throat cards players and especially love to play gin rummy.
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We ate our pizza on paper napkins and played gin rummy in the tack room.
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We were on something like the 15th round of rummy, and my father was winning decisively.
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- Curious: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular ...
- Drunkard: a chronic drinker
- A card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards
- Rummy is a group of card games notable for gameplay based on the matching of similar playing cards. David Parlett (The Penguin Book of Card Games, 1978) describes the Mexican game of Conquian as being ancestral to all rummy games, which itself is derived from a Chinese game called Khanhoo and, ...
- Rummy is a generic term for a family of card games.
- A card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong; a rum-drinking alcoholic
- Mexican origin. Objective is to get rid of all cards by melding, laying off or discarding.
- 1. drunkard; alcoholic. 2. strange; queer; odd.
- Go rummy; a hand with no unmatched cards.
