gin
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Is gin a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) Gin rummy.uncountable
2. (poker) Drawing the best card or combination of cards.Examples: "Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out."countableuncountable
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.obsolete
2. (obsolete) A scheme; contrivance; artifice; a figurative trap or snare.Examples: "The church dores were sparred, Fast boltyd and barryd, Yet wyth a prety gyn I fortuned to come in, […]"; "treason and deceiptfull gin"obsolete
3. (mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.transitive
2. (transitive) To trap something in a gin.transitive
verb (English)
1. (archaic, Early Modern) To begin.Examples: "Gon. All three of them are deſperate : their great guilt / (Like poyſon giuen to worke a great time after) / Now gins to bite the ſpirits :[…]"EarlyModernarchaic
noun (English)
1. (Australia, now considered offensive, ethnic slur) An Aboriginal woman.Examples: "His next shot was discharged amongst the mob, and most unfortunately wounded the gin already mentioned ; who, with a child fastened to her back, slid down the bank, and lay, apparently dying, with her legs in the water."; "On December 28, in the same year [1828], he [John Allen] fought single handed a tribe of native blacks, numbering from thirteen to eighteen, besides "gins" to bring them spears, waddies, etc."; "1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXI, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt From my position I could see the gins pointing back, and as the men turned they looked for a moment and then made a wild rush for the entrance."Synonyms: lubraAustraliaethnicslur
conj (English)
1. (chiefly Scotland, Northern England, Southern US, Appalachia) If.Examples: "[…]for pronouncing according as one would ſay at London I would eat more cheeſe if I had it, the Northern man ſaith, Ay ſuld eat mare cheeſe gin ay hadet, and the Weſterne man ſaith Chud eat more cheeſe an chad it."; "Gin the plough rests on the bank, / The loom, the nation, dies."; "An' gin I'm weel and can keep sober / You may look for it in October."AppalachiaNorthern-EnglandScotlandSouthern-US
This word may be considered offensive or sensitive in some contexts.
Definition source: Wiktionary