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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gin rummy
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Nana and I sat at her kitchen table eating Fannie Mae chocolates and playing gin rummy.
▪ They'd enjoyed a game of snap or whist or gin rummy.
▪ They wore army fatigues and played brooding games of gin rummy, listening to dull rumbles from the sabotage site.
▪ Victoria had been playing gin rummy with her, and Shelley had come to take over.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gin rummy

Rummy \Rum"my\, n.; pl. Rummies. 1. One who drinks rum; an habitually intemperate person.

2, a game of cards.

Gin rummy a type of rummy.

Wiktionary
gin rummy

n. (context card games English) A card-holding game and variant of rummy.

WordNet
gin rummy

n. a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points [syn: gin, knock rummy]

Wikipedia
Gin rummy

Gin rummy, or simply gin, is a two-player card game created in 1909 by Elwood T. Baker and his son C. Graham Baker. According to John Scarne, Gin evolved from 19th-century Whiskey Poker and was created with the intention of being faster than standard rummy but less spontaneous than knock rummy. John Scarne's theory deriving Rummy from Poker through the medium of Whiskey Poker has not gained general acceptance.

Gin Rummy (video game)

Gin Rummy is a video game adaptation of the classic card game on Xbox Live Arcade for the Xbox 360. It was released on September 3, 2008.

Usage examples of "gin rummy".

She laid the hand of gin rummy face-down on the kitchen-smelling oilcloth, and did not know what he was raving about.

I know Jim Warrington, he drives one of the Sanford ambulances, and unless there's a car wreck on 95 he sits around and plays gin rummy all day.

Diggs looked up from the next table, where he had been playing gin rummy with Tojo.

Davis drew a chair next to her as she shuffled and dealt a hand of gin rummy.

When she emerged, she found her Grandmother and Davis playing gin rummy.

Two youngish, soft-looking men, naked except for grey towels round their waists, were playing gin rummy at a deal table near the entrance.