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Pronunciation: [ɡˈɪmlət] (IPA)

A gimlet is a small, hand-held tool typically used for drilling small holes. It can also refer to a cocktail made with gin and lime juice. Some synonyms for gimlet include awl, bradawl, bore, drill, and auger. In the context of cocktails, other words that could be used instead of gimlet include sour, martini, and saketini. Regardless of its use, the gimlet or its synonyms refer to a precise and piercing tool or drink that adds an element of sharpness or tang to the situation at hand.
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Usage examples for Gimlet

He stood, shivering, with gimlet flames in his eyes, his fingers twitching restlessly.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Mrs. Fridolin gazed at her, at the neat American belted serge suit, the straw sailor hat, the demure mouse colored hair, the calm, insolent eyes-eyes that bored like a gimlet.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
Most of it, to be sure, had come from Beaver Street, something "rather dry, with an excellent bouquet," the crafty salesman with gimlet eyes had said; but, then, most of the old Madeira does come from Beaver Street, except Portman's, who has a fellow with a nose and a palate hunting the auction rooms for that particular Sunset of 1834 which had lain in old Mr. Grinnells cellar for twenty-two years; and that other of 1839, once possessed by Colonel Purviance, a wine which had so sharpened the Colonel's taste that he was always uncomfortable when dining outside of his club or away from the tables of one or two experts like himself.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith

Famous quotes with Gimlet

  • He rolled in his bed, twisting the sheets, grappling with a problem years too big for him, awake in the night like a single sentinel on picket. And sometime after midnight, he slept, too, and then only the wind was awake, prying at the hotel and hooting in its gables under the bright gimlet gaze of the stars.
    Stephen King

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