Gibson

¹

[gib-suhn]

noun

1. a dry martini cocktail garnished with a pearl onion.

Gibson

²

[gib-suhn]

noun

1. Althea, 1927–2003, U.S. tennis player.

2. Charles Dana 1867–1944, U.S. artist and illustrator.

3. Josh(ua), 1911–47, U.S. baseball player.

4. Robert Bob, 1935–2020, U.S. baseball pitcher.

5. a male given name.

Gibson

¹

/ ˈɡɪbsən /

noun

1. a cocktail consisting of four or more parts dry gin and one part dry vermouth, iced and served with a pickled pearl onion

Gibson

²

/ ˈɡɪbsən /

noun

1. Mel. born 1956, Australian film actor and director: his films include Mad Max (1979), Hamlet (1990), Braveheart (1996; also directed), What Women Want (2000), The Passion of the Christ (2004; director only), and Apocalypto (2006; director and co-writer)

Word History and Origins

Origin of Gibson¹

First recorded in 1925–30; after the surname Gibson

Example Sentences

Watching Ohtani play calls to mind the words Jack Buck used to call Kirk Gibson’s home run: I don’t believe what I just saw.

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Board chair Jim Gibson, who is also a Clark County commissioner, agreed the project is appropriately regulated.

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“I’d have thought they would have taken us in and welcomed us after a long journey,” said 66-year-old Canadian Gibson, who has sailed since he was 18.

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“A jury decided that the death penalty would be proper,” said Gibson, a former sheriff’s deputy who now works as a fraud investigator for the state auditor.

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There is a guy in Missouri named Roger Gibson, whose business Roger Gibson Auto Restoration does the kind of meticulous work I was hoping to do.

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