gin

Meaning

Noun

1. A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.
2. Gin rummy.
3. Drawing the best card or combination of cards.

Verb

1. To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
2. To trap something in a gin.

Verb

To begin.

Conj

If.

Synonyms

snare

trap

🪤

noose

cotton gin

palm wine

ensnare

gin rummy

spirits

capstan

knock rummy

entrap

arrack

pick off

pile driver

pile hammer

pit

purchase

🛍️

reel

shell

🐚

shuck

sloe

spin

springe

toil

trammel

vodka

whim

whiskies

jin

rice wine

distilled spirits

rums

stake driver

monkey-engine

pile engine

ram engine

pile-driving machine

staking machine

shear-leg crane

pile driving machine

pole press

pile driving engine

pile-hammer

hammer-apparatus

arak

cable stock

brandies

brandy

card

catch

cognac

crab

🦀

dry

fluff

loop

➿

mantrap

picker

Pronounced as (IPA)

/d͡ʒɪn/

Etymology

Abbreviation of geneva, alteration of Dutch genever (“juniper”) from Old French genevre (modern French genièvre), from Vulgar Latin ziniperus, from Latin iūniperus (“juniper”). Hence gin rummy (first attested 1941).