gin

1. 1.

   separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin

   Broaderseparate
2. 2.

   trap with a snare

   “gin game”

   Broadertrap

   hunt

Other forms of gin

plural

gins·

past tense or participle

gan

past tense or participle

ginned

present participle

ginning

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gin

What does gin mean?

gin means "strong liquor flavored with juniper berries". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gin?

gin has 1 syllable: gin. In IPA it is /ˈdʒɪn/.

What is another word for gin?

Close synonyms include snare, noose, cotton gin, gin rummy, knock rummy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gin a common word?

gin is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.