sloe gin

American  

noun

1. a cordial or liqueur made from gin flavored with sloes.

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sloe gin British  

noun

1. gin flavoured with sloe juice

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Etymology

Origin of sloe gin

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Red Voice Sirs: In reading your April 30 issue concerning Paramount's new picture, The Unseen, I am somewhat disturbed by your description of Herbert Marshall as a "neighbor with a voice like sloe gin."

From Time Magazine Archive

As producer of Red Horse sloe gin, I am at a loss to understand the description.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dadi, meanwhile, looked like she may as well have been sipping a sloe gin fizz in the Bahamas.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

The stuff they have put on the market is neither better nor worse than the average sloe gin.

From Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Since I made the firm issue a weekly paper called Skeffington's Poultry Farmer, free to all country customers, the consumption of sloe gin has been enormous among agriculturists.

From Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)