| 单词 | gin joint |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgin joint gin joint n. colloquial (originally U.S.) a bar where strong drinks such as gin are consumed.In later use sometimes with allusion to a line from the film Casablanca; see quot. 1942. ΚΠ 1885 Daily Gaz. (Fort Wayne, Indiana) 29 Jan. 6/3 [They] have been working Nevada hasheries and gin joints. 1902 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 22 Mar. 11/4 If there are any gin joints in the neighborhood Sullivan will raise a little hell. 1942 J. J. Epstein et al. Casablanca (film script) 62 Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world she walks into mine—! 2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 28 Mar. a19/5 Let's see, of all the gin joints. Of all the people the Bush team would let edit its climate reports, we have a guy who first worked for the oil lobby denying climate change. 2009 J. Kellerman True Detectives viii. 70 They serve food at this gin joint? < as lemmas |
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