Definitions for GIN

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GIN gin

Spelling: [jin]

IPA: /dʒɪn/

Gin is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in GIN (gin).

Definitions for GIN

noun

1. an alcoholic liquor obtained by distilling grain mash with juniper berries.
2. an alcoholic liquor similar to this, made by redistilling spirits with flavoring agents, especially juniper berries, orange peel, angelica root, etc.
3. cotton gin.
4. a trap or snare for game.
5. any of various machines employing simple tackle or windlass mechanisms for hoisting.
6. a stationary prime mover having a drive shaft rotated by horizontal beams pulled by horses walking in a circle.
7. Also called gin rummy. a variety of rummy for two players, in which a player with 10 or fewer points in unmatched cards can end the game by laying down the hand.
8. the winning of such a game by laying down a full set of matched cards, earning the winner a bonus of 20 or 25 points.
9. a female Aborigine.
10. an Aboriginal wife.

conjunction

1. if; whether.

verb (used with object)

1. to clear (cotton) of seeds with a gin.
2. to snare (game).

verb (used without object)

1. to win a game in gin by laying down a hand in which all 10 cards are included in sets.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to begin.

Origin of GIN

First recorded in 1705-15; shortened from geneva

Examples for GIN

This fancy spice pack pairs with four different spirits—vodka, tequila, aquavit, and gin—to ensure the perfect morning pick-me-up.

Boil it up to a tolerable thickness; then add sugar, half a pint of good table beer, and a glass of gin, all heated up together.

And then there are the politicians, almost exclusively Republicans, who gin up hate of the “other” for political gain.

gin and white vermouth shaken with salted pomegranate syrup, dappled with rosewater.

gin rummy was his big game and he fraternized with high rollers like Minnesota Fats and Dean Chance.

Any earth left over should be carried to a distance from the gin.

When the couple played The gin Game in Los Angeles, Hitchcock sent them a case of gin.

I owned it all, and insisted we never could have brought the ship in, unless we had got the gin.

He gin Submit a look that pierced clear to her heart (so they say).

He then hastened back to his gin, whom he had left five miles off.