Guinness

[gin-is]

noun

1. Sir Alec, 1914–2000, English actor.

Guinness

/ ˈɡɪnɪs /

noun

1. Sir Alec. 1914–2000, British stage and film actor. His films include Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won an Oscar, and Star Wars (1977); TV roles include Le Carré's George Smiley

Example Sentences

Jamie Dimon was sitting on the 13th floor of his new headquarters on a Monday morning, sipping a Guinness and looking out at the Manhattan skyline.

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This week, the Broad Institute gene-sequencing lab said it read infants’ DNA genomes in less than four hours, cutting an hour off the previous Guinness World Record.

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There are Manchester City shirts, boxing gloves, the odd can of Guinness, Only Fools and Horses memorabilia - Hatton was a huge fan and owned a three-wheeled van - and more tokens of appreciation.

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Levy orders a pint of Guinness, Prince William has a pint of sweet cider.

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More recently known for the trend of "splitting the G", the brewery now sells more than 10 million glasses of Guinness around the world each day.

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