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gin(3) (iou)



gin noun2. E18.
[Abbreviation of geneva, GENEVER.]
An alcoholic spirit distilled from grain or malt and flavoured with juniper berries; a drink of this. E18.
gin and orange, gin and tonic, etc. gin and it: see IT noun. HOLLANDS gin. pink gin: see PINK adjective2.
G. Greene He only felt his loneliness after his third gin.
In full gin rummy. A form of rummy in which a player holding cards totalling ten or less may terminate play. M20.
OKLAHOMA gin.
Comb.: gin berry the juniper berry; gin-crawl: see CRAWL noun2 1b; gin-mill US slang a bar, a run-down or seedy nightclub; gin-palace a gaudily decorated public house; gin pennant Nautical a green and white flag hoisted to invite officers of other ships to come aboard for drinks; gin rummy: see sense 2 above; gin sling a sweetened and flavoured drink of gin and water; gin-soaked, gin-sodden adjectives soaked with gin, given to drinking large quantities of gin.
ginny adjective affected by, addicted to, characterized by, or resembling gin L19.