gins

Noun (1)

gin (countable and uncountable, plural gins)

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. (uncountable) Gin rummy.
3. Drawing the best card or combination of cards.
   • Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out.

Noun (2)

gin (plural gins)

1. (obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.
2. (obsolete) A scheme; contrivance; artifice; a figurative trap or snare.
   • The church dores were sparred,
     Fast boltyd and barryd,
     Yet wyth a prety gyn
     I fortuned to come in, […]c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 64, lines 91–94
3. A snare or trap for game.
   • It was the cry of a rabbit caught in a gin.1895, Thomas Hardy, “IV-ii”, in Jude the Obscure, London: Osgood

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