Skip to definition.
Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows or the iPhone/iPad and Android apps


Noun: gin  jin
  1. Strong liquor flavoured with juniper berries
    - mother's ruin [Brit, slang]
     
  2. A noose used as trap for birds or small mammals
    - 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
     
  5. [Austral, offensive] An Aboriginal woman
Verb: gin (ginned,ginning)  jin
  1. Separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin
     
  2. (hunting) trap with a snare
    "gin game"

Sounds like: gimp, gui, gin, djinn

Derived forms: ginning, ginned, gins

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

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

Encyclopedia: Gin, Smoke, Lies