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gin mill
noun
a bar US, 1866
The term has shed most of its unsavoury connotations of the past and is now generally jocular.- Look, to most whites the ginmills of Harlem mean only one thing, the underworld. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 228, 1946
- At three-thirty the word went out in the back of gin mill off Forty-second and Third. — Mickey Spillane, Kiss Me Deadly, p. 56, 1952
- [T]hese are mostly ginmills featuring bootleg and the white liquor called King Kong. — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, pp. 67–68, 1956
- Our flop was as small as this trailer, and we ate at this gin mill every night, because you got free seconds on the cold cuts. — James Ellroy, White Jazz, p. 321, 1992
- When they got to Fin’s favorite gin mill they were lucky to grab a parking space only half a block away. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 226, 1993
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