: a drink consisting of sweetened lime juice and gin or vodka and sometimes carbonated or plain water
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Noun
To be sure, tax cuts and muscular national defense and a gimlet eye on other programs had been components of Republican platforms for generations.—Ron Elving, NPR, 17 May 2025 The green gimlet, Ramage says, took inspiration from fun items found in the fridge.—John Kell, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Verb
Louisa Catherine Adams, John Quincy Adams’s wife, had gimlet eyes, a satirist’s wit, and a sharp pencil.—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2016 See All Example Sentences for gimlet
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Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English, from Anglo-French guimbelet, from Middle French (Picard), modification of Middle Dutch wimmelkijn, from wimmel wimble
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