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Answer for the clue "Gin cocktail, for short ", 7 letters:
collins

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Collins may refer to: __NOTOC__

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Population (2000): 2683 Housing Units (2000): 1012 Land area (2000): 7.592492 sq. miles (19.664463 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.029746 sq. miles (0.077042 sq. km) Total area (2000): 7.622238 sq. miles (19.741505 sq. km) FIPS code: 15140 Located within: ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"iced gin drink served in a tall glass" (called a Collins glass ), 1940, American English; earlier Tom Collins (by 1878), of uncertain origin. Popular in early 1940s; bartending purists at the time denied it could be based on anything but gin. The surname ...

Usage examples of collins.

In 1857, an American named Collins came forward with a scheme for the formation of an Amur Railway Company, to lay a line from Irkutsk to Chita.

On July 9 the will was properly executed and signed by Dolley and three witnesses, including Eliza Collins Lee, who was in Washington.

Mr Collins: we may come up the foresheet half a fathom, if you please.

Pat Collins, and I drive for the Mercury Freighting Company, Dave Lyons will back me.

And then the footman said something to Collins in German that Girard did not understand.

More to the point is the Magnificat, Collins, if I were making your specious argument.

Jeff said, holding out his wrists so Collins could clearly see the marks on them.

First Royals since Lysander had been Major Collins in command of the Scouts in the Dales campaign, but the Regiment would remember him.

Niggeree and the pearl-shells of Collins, and exchanged the provisions which they require for their coming cruise, so that in the transfer, many oaths have been uttered, if not registered amongst the representatives of western culture, and much chattering and skurrying amongst the dusky children of uncultivated Nature, who, with their canoes and the dingies, are still passing between the steamers and the schooners.

In the entire gaggle of miscellaneous tools, the only thing that could handle the coupling on the radiator pipe was the Stillson that Grego Collins had taken.

Emmet Dalton, a militant Treatyite, might have given the actual orders for the shelling, but the instructions had to have come from Michael Collins.

Wilkie Collins may be said to be in this way a lesser Dickens and Anthony Trollope a lesser Thackeray.

I had brief but rewarding interviews with Mike Collins, a graceful writer about space, and the two elegant women astronauts Judith Resnick and Anna Fisher.

Johnson, President Eisenhower, Secretary Wilson, the astronauts Deke Slayton and Mike Collins, and the scientists Jack Eddy, John Houbolt and Carl Sagan, but they are not given fictitious roles or inflated speeches.

The Collinses will turn us out before he is cold in his grave, and if you are not kind to us, brother, I do not know what we shall do.