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noun
1.
a small tool for boring holes, consisting of a shaft with a pointed screw at one end and a handle perpendicular to the shaft at the other.
2.
a cocktail made with gin or vodka, sweetened lime juice, and sometimes soda water.
verb (used with object)
3.
to pierce with or as if with a gimlet.
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adjective
5.
able to penetrate or bore through.
Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English < Old French guimbelet < Germanic; compare Middle Dutch wimmel wimble
1375–1425; late Middle English < Old French guimbelet < Germanic; compare Middle Dutch wimmel wimble
Related forms
gim·let·y, adjective
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Word Origin & History
gimlet
early 15c., from Anglo-Fr. guimbelet, perhaps from M.Du. wimmelkijn, dim. of wimmel "auger, drill." The meaning "cocktail made with gin or vodka and lime juice" is first attested 1928, presumably from its "penetrating" effects on the drinker.
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