Meaning of Martini | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A cocktail made with gin or vodka and vermouth.
   countable, uncountable
2. A breech mechanism for a rifle.
   obsolete
3. Alternative letter-case form of martini (a cocktail made with gin or vodka and vermouth).
   alt-of, countable, uncountable
4. A surname from Italian.
5. Any cocktail served in a cocktail glass, often sweet or fruity and aimed at women.
   countable, proscribed, sometimes, uncountable
6. A type of rifle using similar features.
7. A brand of Italian vermouth available in several versions, from the Martini & Rossi company.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Will you join⟳ us at six o’clock for martinis?”

“My boss is out on another of his three-martini lunches.”

“Even at Juneau's prices, ten dollars worth of martinis is a lot of liquor to drink⟳ in an hour.”

“Could any tiger Drink⟳ martinis, smoke⟳ cigars, And last⟳ as we do?”

“He drank martini, played bridge in the club, and captured treaty-port life wickedly.”

“I had the feeling that had he been a smoker he would have⟳ lit a cigarette at this moment. I suspected that once he had been a smoker, for he seemed as if he wished someone would offer⟳ him one. He drank martini instead.”

“After the meal, they drank martini on the rocks in the lounge.”

“I love⟳ the chocolate martinis at Trendy Bar!”

“Now the butt of a Martini in the small of your back hurts a great deal⟳”

“Only the priest and Major Hugh Edwards, a blind Englishman, drank Martini or something cheaper in the hot hours after noon and before the clumping sabots announced the working day’s end⟳.”

“They would talk⟳ while Mrs Costello smoked and drank Martini, and then there would be the sudden, jolting sound⟳ of the hoover being switched on.”

“My father and mother drank Martini while I had orange juice.”

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