gin rummy en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) A card-holding game and variant of rummy.
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: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: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):
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ja ジン・ラミー (card game) · ru джин ра́мми (card game) · de Gin Rommé (card game) · it gin rummy (card game) · cmn 金羅美紙牌 /金罗美纸牌 (card game) · el τζιν ράμι (card game) · fr gin rami (card game) · de Gin Rummy (card game) · el τζιν ραμί (card game) · es gin rummy (card game) · ko 진 러미 (card game) · fi ginirommi (card game)