gin

(noun, verb)

noun

1. strong liquor flavored with juniper berries

Definition categories: food, booze, liquor, spirits

2. a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose

Similar word(s): noose, snare

Definition categories: man–made, trap

3. a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers

Definition categories: man–made, machine

4. a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points

Definition categories: act, rum, rummy

Sentences with gin as a noun:

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

verb

1. separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin

Definition categories: contact, disunite, divide, part, separate

2. trap with a snare

- gin game

Definition categories: contact, ensnare, entrap, snare, trammel, trap

Sentences with gin as a verb:

- The matter was a ginned up controversy