My grandma loved gin and limes, that's why the gimlet was her drink of choice.
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Gimlet
Synonyms for "gimlet" (9 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Strong matches (3)
Related words (4)
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Translations
51 translations across 32 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- τέρετρον noun (tool)
Basque
1 entries- ginbalet noun (tool)
Bulgarian
1 entries- свре́дел noun (tool)
Catalan
1 entries- barrina noun (tool)
Czech
1 entries- nebozez noun (tool)
Danish
1 entries- vridbor noun (tool)
Dutch
2 entries- fretboor noun (tool)
- boren verb (To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet))
Finnish
3 entries- gimlet noun (cocktail)
- näveri noun (tool)
- nävertää verb (To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet))
French
3 entries- gimlet noun (cocktail)
- vrille noun (tool)
- vriller verb (To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet))
Galician
3 entries- binguelete noun (tool)
- tarabela noun (tool)
- trade noun (tool)
Georgian
4 entries- ბურღი noun (tool)
- გიმლეტი noun (cocktail)
- პატარა ბურღი noun (tool)
- ბურღვა verb (To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet))
German
2 entries- Ahle noun (tool)
- Gimlet noun (cocktail)
Ingrian
1 entries- vinteli noun (tool)
Irish
1 entries- gimléad noun (tool)
Italian
2 entries- succhiello noun (tool)
- succhiellare verb (To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet))
Japanese
2 entries- ギムレット noun (cocktail)
- 錐 noun (tool)
Korean
1 entries- 송곳 noun (tool)
Latin
1 entries- terebra noun (tool)
Manx
1 entries- gimlad noun (tool)
Māori
1 entries- wiri noun (tool)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- بورغو noun (tool)
Persian
1 entries- مته noun (tool)
Piedmontese
1 entries- vrin noun (tool)
Polish
3 entries- gimlet noun (cocktail)
- ręczny świder noun (tool)
- wiercić verb (To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet))
Portuguese
4 entries- broca noun (tool)
- trado noun (tool)
- verruma noun (tool)
- verrumar verb (To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet))
Russian
2 entries- бура́вчик noun (tool)
- буравить verb (To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet))
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- gimleid noun (tool)
Spanish
1 entries- barrena de mano noun (tool)
Swedish
1 entries- gimlet noun (cocktail)
Turkish
1 entries- burgu noun (tool)
Ukrainian
1 entries- свердлик noun (tool)
Welsh
1 entries- gwimbill noun (tool)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
The box was close on every side, with a little door for me to go in and out, and a few gimlet holes to let in air.
Source: wiktionary
I would find by the edge of that water / The collar-bone of a hare / Worn thin by the lapping of water, / And pierce it through with a gimlet and stare [...]
Source: wiktionary
We sat in a corner of the bar at Victor's and drank gimlets. “They don't know how to make them here,” he said. “What they call a gimlet is just some lime or lemon juice and gin with a dash of sugar and bitters. A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's Lime Juice and nothing else. It beats martinis hollow.”
Source: wiktionary
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