Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: gin
IPA transcription: [dʒ'ɪn]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: gin, gin_rummy, knock_rummy
    Meaning: a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points
  • Synonyms: cotton_gin, gin
    Meaning: a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers
  • Synonyms: snare, gin, noose
    Meaning: a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose
  • Synonyms: gin
    Meaning: strong liquor flavored with juniper berries
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: gin
    Meaning: trap with a snare; "gin game"
  • Synonyms: gin
    Meaning: separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin
Usage examples
  • It was the cry of a rabbit caught in a gin.
  • Take three oranges, a lemon, three of gin, to one of vermouth, with a dash of bitters.
  • Laxative pills, rhubarb, glauber-salts, bitter-waters, aloes, gin, etc., etc., are in every body's hands, and become an increasing necessity for millions.
  • They know too that hares and rabbits often fall into these snares, and accordingly they turn this knowledge to good account; and when they find a half-strangled animal in the gin, they quietly despatch, and if possible carry it home.
  • One night, as I sat half-stupefied in a den of more than infamy, my attention was suddenly drawn to some black object, reposing upon the head of one of the immense hogsheads of gin or of rum, which constituted the chief furniture of the apartment.
  • For these services Berwin paid her well, and only enjoined her to keep a quiet tongue about his private affairs, which Mrs. Kebby usually did until excited by too copious drams of gin, when she talked freely and unwisely to all the servants in the Square.