Definition/Meaning of gin

• English - Noun: gin (countable and uncountable, plural gins) (countable, uncountable) A colourless non - aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling ferment ed grain s such as barley , corn , oats or rye with juniper berries ; the base for many cocktail s. (uncountable) Gin rummy . (countable, uncountable) Drawing the best card or combination of cards. Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight…
• English - Verb: gin (third-person singular simple present gins, present participle ginning, simple past and past participle ginned) (transitive) To remove the seed s from cotton with a cotton gin. (transitive) To trap something in a gin. gin (third-person singular simple present gins, present participle ginning, simple past gan, past participle gun) (Early, Modern, archaic) To begin . 1610–1611 (date written),…
• English - Conjunction: gin (Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland, Southern US) If . 1870, John Christopher Atkinson, Lost; or, What came of a slip from 'honour bright'., page 19: Wheeah, Ah thinks thee could, gin ye tried. 1815, Robert Anderson, Ballads in the Cumberland dialect, page 152: He's get han' and siller, / Gin he fancies me.
• English - Anagrams: ing , nig
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. Abbreviation of geneva , alteration of Dutch genever (“juniper”) from Old French genevre (modern French genièvre ), from Vulgar Latin ziniperus , from Latin iūniperus (“juniper”). Hence gin rummy (first attested 1941). Etymology 2. Partly from Middle English gin , ginne (“cleverness, scheme, talent, device, machine”), from Old French gin, an aphetism of Old French engin (“engine”);…