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Noun gin has 4 senses

gin - strong liquor flavored with juniper berries
--₁ is a kind of liquor, spirits, booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, strong drink
--₁ is a substance of gin and tonic; martini; gin and it; pink lady
--₁ has substance: juniper berries
--₁ has particulars: bathtub gin; sloe gin; geneva, Holland gin, Hollands
snare, gin, noose - a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a noose
--₂ is a kind of trap
--₂ has parts: slipknot
Derived form: verb gin₂
cotton gin, gin - a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers
--₃ is a kind of machine

Derived form: verb gin₁
gin, gin rummy, knock rummy - a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points
--₄ is a kind of rummy, rum

Verb gin has 2 senses

gin - separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin
--₁ is one way to separate, disunite, divide, part

Derived form: noun gin₃
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
gin - trap with a snare; "gin game"
--₂ is one way to trap, entrap, snare, ensnare, trammel

Derived form: noun gin₂
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something