knock rummy

American

noun

Cards.

a variety of rummy for two to six players, in which a player can end a game by laying down a hand with any number of points in cards not included in sets.

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Mumbling around a sandwich while he plays a game of pool or knock rummy before a race, Willie almost seems one of the boys.

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