sloe gin

1. 1.

   gin flavored with sloes (fruit of the blackthorn)

   Broadergin

Questions about sloe gin

What does sloe gin mean?

sloe gin means "gin flavored with sloes (fruit of the blackthorn)".

Is sloe gin a common word?

sloe gin is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.