kemps
/kɛmps/
noun
- A card game similar to rummy, often played in teams, where players try to collect sets of matching cards and signal their teammates without being caught.
- In kemps, you have to be careful not to give away your hand to the other team.
- We played kemps at the family reunion and everyone laughed when my cousin accidentally signaled the wrong person.
- She learned kemps in college and now teaches it to her friends on game night.
- A set of cards that a player has collected in the game of kemps, typically four of a kind.
- She was so close to getting a kemps, but the other team called it first.
- He quietly placed his kemps on the table and tried to signal his partner without being seen.
- If you have a kemps, you need to make a secret sign to your teammate.