Meanings
- uncountablecard gamesA 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)2 more examples
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 NovelThat'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 118Synonyms: gin
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA card-holding game and variant of rummy.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 金羅美紙牌 /金罗美纸牌
- 金羅美紙牌 /金罗美纸牌 (jīnluóměi zhǐpái)card game
Finnish ginirommi
- ginirommicard game
French gin rami
- gin ramicard game
German Gin Rummy, Gin Rommé
- Gin Rummycard game
- Gin Rommécard game
Greek τζιν ράμι, τζιν ραμί
- τζιν ράμι (tzin rámi)card game
- τζιν ραμί (tzin ramí)card game
Italian gin rummy
- gin rummycard game
Japanese ジン・ラミー
- ジン・ラミー (jin ramī)card game
Korean 진 러미
- 진 러미 (jin reomi)card game
Russian джин ра́мми
- джин ра́мми (džin rámmi)card game
Spanish gin rummy
- gin rummycard game
Cite this entry
gin rummy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gin%20rummy
“gin rummy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gin%20rummy. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gin rummy,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gin%20rummy.
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