Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A drink composed of gin, lemon-juice, and effervescing water, with or without sugar.
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Examples
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Anyhow, Stires was a temperance man: he took only one or two drinks a day, and seldom went beyond a modest gin-fizz.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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He understood the good points of each and every little cafe in the foreign quarters; he could order a dinner with the rarest taste; it was due largely to him that the fame of the Ramos gin-fizz and the Sazerac cocktail became national.
The Net Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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She would shake a cocktail, make a gin-fizz or a Doctor Funk, chop ice or do any menial service, yet withal was your entertainer and your friend.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900
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"I can think just as well with a gin-fizz as without one.
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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