Gin-mill


[jin] /dʒɪn/

noun, Slang.
1.
a bar or saloon, especially a cheap or disreputable one.

noun phrase

A saloon; barroom; tavern: There still are some boobs, alas, who’d like the old-time gin-mill back/ In some gin mill where they know the bartender

[1860+; certainly influenced by gin mill, ”cotton mill where a cotton gin is used”]

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