gin mill
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of gin mill
An Americanism dating back to 1860–65
Example Sentences
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It took meeting Norma, a young beauty in a gin mill in the Queens neighborhood of Jackson Heights, to steer him toward acting.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2023
Classing up a gin mill with Bentwood chairs and imitation Tiffany lamps—set dressing the part of a homey establishment, as it were—Stillman built the first of the great singles bars.
From Slate • Jan. 21, 2013
The story was a natural: the victim had worked as a dice girl in a gin mill and she had been married just two days.
From Time Magazine Archive
This, uttered last week, was not a college proctor's description of a rowdy alumni reunion, nor a gang foreman's account of a herd of roustabouts let loose in a gin mill.
From Time Magazine Archive
Saloon bar, for instance, is intended to designate a rather aristocratic place, above the public bar; while the lowest "gin mill" in the United States would be called a "saloon."
From Walking-Stick Papers by Holliday, Robert Cortes
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