/ dʒɪn; NAmE / noun
1.
[ U ] 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.
[ C ] a glass of gin :
I'll have a gin and tonic, please.
3.
= cotton gin
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WORD ORIGIN
senses 1 to 2 early 18th cent.: abbreviation of genever .
sense 3 Middle English (in the sense a tool or device, a trick ): from Old French engin , from Latin ingenium talent, device, from in- in + gignere beget.