Meaning of gin blossom | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Vascular rosacea caused or exacerbated by excessive consumption of alcohol.
   slang
2. A female alcoholic.
3. A cocktail composed of gin and fruit juice (usually peach, apricot, orange, and/or lime).
4. A metaphoric flower associated with heavy drinking.

Examples

“"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.”

“Now, what do you say, my little gin blossom?”

“Vera Maude had seen him in photos, the sweet little gin blossom standing next to the droopy old sourpuss.”

“Hastily she poured another gin blossom.”

“Reagan, perhaps because of his father's severe alcoholism, was not much of drinker, preferring a weak gin blossom at the White House when the occasion called for coctails.”

“He pressed a gin blossom in Virginia's hand as she sat in a green chair, crossed her legs, and dialed the house phone.”

“If mother could see me now, I grinned as I sipped a gin blossom from a teacup and watched Mabel shake her pert little derriere to the accompaniment of a ukulele pounding out “When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'.””

“"Well, I suppose you want a drop of gin for that thing?" she said. "Hand it over; I am very fond of flowers." "Specially gin blossoms," said the costermonger, in a rather loud whisper.”

“In the case of Mrs. Mollie Carroll and Randy Thomas, the flower of romance was a gin blossom.”

“Instead, the City of Angels, that ever-metastasizing concrete gin blossom of on-ramps and off-ramps built over prehistoric tar pits, deflowered her.”

“In 2003, the World Literature Forum was held in Budapest, Germany, a lovely, romantic seaside city that is perfectly suited for such a gathering, particularly in the spring with the gin blossoms are in full bloom.”

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