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- noun Plural form of
gin . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
gin .
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Examples
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I'm not taking any – either in gins or in organisers.
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New Amsterdam has a much softer, citrusy taste than traditional, juniper-heavy gins, which is why people who aren't gin fans like it.
Tony Sachs: New Amsterdam Gin Made A Mixologist Out Of Me... Sort Of 2009
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One of the gins was a disfigured-looking object; she had lost her nose and lips.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough
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The women of the aboriginals were known as gins, or lubras, the children as picaninnies -- this last, of course, not an aboriginal name.
Peeps At Many Lands: Australia Frank Fox 1917
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The bootlegged whiskies and so-called gins often made people sick.
Waxy.org Links 2010
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The bootlegged whiskies and so-called gins often made people sick.
Born Again Redneck Patrick Joubert Conlon 2010
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The bootlegged whiskies and so-called gins often made people sick.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED Mike Rivero 2010
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Their women, or "gins," are even inferior to the men, both physically and mentally.
Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Colin Munro
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We heard of the snakes of Australia, which workmen dug up in torpid writhing knots, in the cold weather ... of native corrobories which one old informant told us he had often attended, where he procured native women or "gins" as they called them, for a mere drink of whiskey or gin
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921
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Maybe you right, my frien's settin 'down by de do', an 'my frien's leanin' 'gins' de choir banisters, an 'I ain' gwine say no mo '.
Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886
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