gin

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

gin [gin gins ginned ginning] BrE [dʒɪn] NAmE [dʒɪn] noun
1. uncountable an alcoholic drink made from grain and flavoured with ↑juniper berries. Gin is usually drunk mixed with ↑tonic water or fruit juice.
see also ↑pink gin
2. countable a glass of gin
•I'll have a gin and tonic, please.
3. = ↑cotton gin

Word Origin:
senses 1 to 2 early 18th cent. genever sense 3 Middle English ‘a tool or device, a trick’ Old French engin Latin ingenium ‘talent, device’ in- ‘in’ gignere ‘beget’

Example Bank:
•She poured herself a large gin.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  gin rummy, knock rummy, cotton gin, snare, noose