单词 | gin craze |
释义 | > as lemmasgin craze gin craze n. a craze for drinking gin; esp. a period in the early 18th cent. when the consumption of gin increased rapidly in Great Britain, provoking moral indignation and various legislative attempts to control it. ΚΠ 1911 L. P. Bowler Gold Coast Palaver xvi. 86 Cannibalism is accentuated by the gin craze. 1933 Harvard Graduates Mag. Sept. 38 Eventually, at the peak of the so-called Gin Craze, the total reached more than eleven million gallons per annum. 1959 R. Wilson Sc. made Easy vi. 82 The 1743 Act tried to check rather than prohibit the gin craze. 2009 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 25/3 The bridge between the sweeter Holland gin that launched the gin craze in the 18th century and the London Dry that typically goes in your martini today. < as lemmas |
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