gin mill

slang A bar, especially one that is run-down. Are you guys hungover? You spent an awful lot of time at that gin mill last night!

gin mill

and gin dive and gin palace

n. a saloon; a low liquor establishment. (Older.) Fred hit every gin mill on the way home. The joint looks like a gin dive. I’m not going in there!

See also: gin, mill

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

See also:

palace
gin dive
gin palace
grist to the mill
water to (one's) mill
shitshow
wax eloquent
eloquent
gargle factory
would like

References in periodicals archive

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The Gin Mill: where the mayor's starving artists meet to create their best works.

Mayor Dyster and the art of inebriation: a true suds masterpiece

We both know what venue means, gin mill. Don't hide behind Mr.

Does city need a police detail on Internet?

I sat next to some of the guys in local gin mills while they chugged beer and spewed out their dark tales.

The Chain goes through another cycle

When his career ended, LaMotta moved into owning and managing bars and "gin mills" before turning his hand to acting and stand-up comedy.

The punches never hurt me the only place I did get hurt was out of the ring; Boxing mourns Jake 'Raging Bull' LaMotta, 95

When his career ended, LaMotta moved into owning and managing bars and gin mills before turning his hand to acting and stand-up comedy.

RAGING BULL LEGEND LAMOTTA DIES AT 95; De Niro leads the tributes to a boxing great

Another piece of the new work rules calls for making sure the agents keep clear of what are described as "unsavory bars." Since they can't be trusted to make such judgments on their own, obviously I and the other chaperones will have to do a certain amount of savoring of the output of these gin mills to ascertain which are sufficiently savory for our presidential protectors to patronize.

Watchdogs watching the watchdogs?

Here the heroes are the reformers, like Jacob Riis, whose muckraking How the Other Half Lives (1890) and his startling documentary photographs of slum hovels, back alleys and gin mills, made possible by the invention of flash attachments for cameras, brought on laws regulating tenement conditions.

New York reflects America's best and worst

词组	gin mill
释义	gin mill gin mill slang A bar, especially one that is run-down. Are you guys hungover? You spent an awful lot of time at that gin mill last night! See also: gin, mill Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. gin mill and gin dive and gin palace n. a saloon; a low liquor establishment. (Older.) Fred hit every gin mill on the way home. The joint looks like a gin dive. I’m not going in there! See also: gin, mill McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions See also: palace gin dive gin palace grist to the mill water to (one's) mill shitshow wax eloquent eloquent gargle factory would like References in periodicals archive We've come a long way since the two brothers met in a gin mill that evening in Manhattan and came up with the idea that would become Real Estate Weekly. How it started one evening over drinks The Gin Mill: where the mayor's starving artists meet to create their best works. Mayor Dyster and the art of inebriation: a true suds masterpiece We both know what venue means, gin mill. Don't hide behind Mr. Does city need a police detail on Internet? I sat next to some of the guys in local gin mills while they chugged beer and spewed out their dark tales. The Chain goes through another cycle When his career ended, LaMotta moved into owning and managing bars and "gin mills" before turning his hand to acting and stand-up comedy. The punches never hurt me the only place I did get hurt was out of the ring; Boxing mourns Jake 'Raging Bull' LaMotta, 95 When his career ended, LaMotta moved into owning and managing bars and gin mills before turning his hand to acting and stand-up comedy. RAGING BULL LEGEND LAMOTTA DIES AT 95; De Niro leads the tributes to a boxing great Another piece of the new work rules calls for making sure the agents keep clear of what are described as "unsavory bars." Since they can't be trusted to make such judgments on their own, obviously I and the other chaperones will have to do a certain amount of savoring of the output of these gin mills to ascertain which are sufficiently savory for our presidential protectors to patronize. Watchdogs watching the watchdogs? Here the heroes are the reformers, like Jacob Riis, whose muckraking How the Other Half Lives (1890) and his startling documentary photographs of slum hovels, back alleys and gin mills, made possible by the invention of flash attachments for cameras, brought on laws regulating tenement conditions. New York reflects America's best and worst
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