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gimlet
[ gim-lit ]
noun
- 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.
- a cocktail made with gin or vodka, sweetened lime juice, and sometimes soda water.
verb (used with object)
- to pierce with or as if with a gimlet.
- Also · [] Nautical. to rotate (a suspended anchor) to a desired position.
adjective
- able to penetrate or bore through.
gimlet
/ ˈɡɪɪ /
noun
- a small hand tool consisting of a pointed spiral tip attached at right angles to a handle, used for boring small holes in wood
- a cocktail consisting of half gin or vodka and half lime juice
- a eucalyptus of W Australia having a twisted bole
verb
- tr to make holes in (wood) using a gimlet
adjective
- penetrating; piercing (esp in the phrase gimlet-eyed )
Other yvlog Forms
- l· adjective
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of gimlet1
Example Sentences
With a gimlet eye and a surprisingly girlish laugh, Vera is cantankerous, impatient, intensely private, unapologetically disheveled and utterly glorious.
Watching it all with a gimlet eye, Mary — his old friend who’s still helplessly in love with him — takes Frank to task for sacrificing his theatrical partnership with Charley for hollow Hollywood success.
He’s also the bartender who introduced me to what became my signature cocktail, the vodka gimlet.
His Napoleon views the world with a gimlet eye and firmly compressed lips.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, the nation’s leading civil rights watchdog, has labeled Moms for Liberty “extremist,” a label that made headlines and cast a gimlet eye on the organization’s mom-and-apple-pie persona.
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