Contextualizebeta

gin joint

noun

Definitions

  1. A commercial establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed, especially…

    A commercial establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed, especially one which is shabby or downmarket.

    • Rick Blaine: "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
    • The heroin trade has also flourished in Ruili, along with all the ancillary businesses of bordertowns: casinos, gin joints, a glitzy bowling alley, beauty parlors and garish short-time hotels catering to bigger-spending debauchers.
    • The Tanager was founded on East Fourth Street in a former barbershop, then relocated in 1953 to 90 East 10th, a cheaper, narrow, four-story building upstairs from a gin joint.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gin joint. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA