gin
jin
- n strong liquor flavored with juniper berries
- n a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose
- n a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers
- n a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points
- v separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin
- v trap with a snare
gin game
- From the first sip of the proffered aperitif at El Bulli a frozen gin with hot lemon fizz you know you're in for something different.
- Toward the tag end of winter, when the Oxford or Cambridge undergraduate has been sewn into the hair shirt of academic strictures for dismal months, he begins to itch.
- Death, the Black Pontifex, came last week to Louis Nazaire, Cardinal Begin, Archbishop of Quebec and Catholic Primate of Canada.