gin rummy

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Noun

gin rummy (uncountable)

  1. (card games) A card-holding game and variant of rummy.
    Synonym: gin
    • 1943, “I'm A Stranger Here Myself”, Ogden Nash (lyrics), Kurt Weill (music):
      What is your latest foible? / Is gin rummy more exquisite? / Is skiing more enjoyable?
    • 2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 118:
      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.

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