Definition of GIN

gin

Plural: gins

Noun

  • strong liquor flavored with juniper berries
  • a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose
  • a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers
  • a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points
  • 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.
  • Gin rummy.
  • Drawing the best card or combination of cards.
  • A trick; a device or instrument.
  • A scheme; contrivance; artifice; a figurative trap or snare.
  • A snare or trap for game.
  • A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
  • A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
  • A pile driver.
  • A windpump.
  • A cotton gin.
  • An instrument of torture worked with screws.
  • An Aboriginal woman.

Verb

  • separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin
  • trap with a snare
    • "gin game"
  • To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
  • To trap something in a gin.
  • To begin.
  • GAN, GUNNEN, GINNING, GINS to begin
  • GINNED, GINNING, GINS to remove seeds from cotton

Conj

  • If.

Examples

  • "Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out."

Origin / Etymology

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).

Synonyms

cotton gin, gin rummy, knock rummy, noose, snare, lubra

Scrabble Score: 4

gin: valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
gin: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gin: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 6

gin is a valid Words With Friends word