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: a small tool with a screw point, grooved shank, and cross handle for boring holes
: having a piercing or penetrating quality
: a drink consisting of sweetened lime juice and gin or vodka and sometimes carbonated or plain water
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Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 25 Dec. 2024
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In a new collection about New York City, the writer turns his gimlet eye on its icons, its architecture, its hot spots — and its suits.
—Sadie Stein, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
With a gimlet eye and a surprisingly girlish laugh, Vera is cantankerous, impatient, intensely private, unapologetically disheveled and utterly glorious.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
But the beverage program also offers martinis, Negronis, gimlets and other classic cocktails.
—Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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But come, now: gimlets are for drinking, for celebration, for pleasure, and A Complete Unknown is, too.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 25 Dec. 2024
What to Read 10 Best Books of 2024 100 Notable Books of 2024
Find Your Next Book
21st Century’s Best Books
January Releases
In a new collection about New York City, the writer turns his gimlet eye on its icons, its architecture, its hot spots — and its suits.
—Sadie Stein, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
With a gimlet eye and a surprisingly girlish laugh, Vera is cantankerous, impatient, intensely private, unapologetically disheveled and utterly glorious.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
But the beverage program also offers martinis, Negronis, gimlets and other classic cocktails.
—Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Gimlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gimlet. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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