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Noun: gin  gin
  1. Strong liquor flavoured with juniper berries
     
  2. A trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose
    - snare, noose
     
  3. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers
    - cotton gin
     
  4. A form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points
    - gin rummy, knock rummy
Verb: gin (ginned,ginning)  gin
  1. Separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin
     
  2. Trap with a snare
    "gin game"

Sounds like: djinn, jinn

Derived forms: ginned, ginning, gins

Type of: booze, disunite, divide, ensnare, entrap, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, liquor, machine, part, rum, rummy, separate, snare, spirits [Brit], strong drink, trammel, trap

Part of: gin and it, gin and tonic, martini, pink lady

Encyclopedia: Gin