gin blossom
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.35 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A metaphoric flower associated with heavy drinking.
Example Sentences
- ""Red Monkey": a Hundi slur, originally an allusion to the gin-blossom-encrusted faces of British colonial administrators"
- "One man had a gin blossom nose and a huge gut, another piercing blue eyes set off by deep-set wrinkles."
- "What a gin blossom is literally — what it symbolizes, I suppose, is loss of control."
- "That bohunk bastard has the biggest gin blossom I've ever seen."
- "Sunny couldn't possibly have thought my mother would be better off staying at Café Divorcée with nothing to show for it but gray roots and a gin blossom."
- "She was an alcoholic old biddy, a "gin blossom”, who was venturing out on the streets past 10:00 PM alone because she had to get another bottle, to hold her over until morning, when she would probably go and get another bottle."