蒸馏饮用酒的类型，1714年，geneva的缩写，受瑞士城市名称的影响（与其无关）而从荷兰语genever“杜松子酒”改造而来，字面意思是“杜松”（因为酒精是用其浆果调味的），来自古法语genevre“杜松植物”（12世纪），来自俗拉丁语*jeniperus，来自拉丁语juniperus“杜松”（参见juniper）。
[I]t was not till about 1724 that the passion for gin-drinking appears to have infected the masses of the population, and it spread with the rapidity and the violence of an epidemic. Small as is the place which this fact occupies in English history, it was probably, if we consider all the consequences that have flowed from it, the most momentous in that of the eighteenth century—incomparably more so than any event in the purely political or military annals of the country. [W.E.H. Lecky, "A History of England in the Eighteenth Century," 1878]
[I]t was not till about 1724 that the passion for gin-drinking appears to have infected the masses of the population, and it spread with the rapidity and the violence of an epidemic. Small as is the place which this fact occupies in English history, it was probably, if we consider all the consequences that have flowed from it, the most momentous in that of the eighteenth century—incomparably more so than any event in the purely political or military annals of the country. [W.E.H. Lecky, "A History of England in the Eighteenth Century," 1878]
Gin and tonic的证据可追溯至1873年；gin-sling可追溯至1790年；gin-fizz（加柠檬汁和汽水）来自1878年。Gin-mill，美国俚语意为“低级酒馆或酒廊，饮用烈酒的地方”（1872年）可能是对gin (n.2)的感官双关。英国的gin-palace“华丽装饰的酒馆或酒廊，饮用烈酒的地方”始于1831年。另见：Old Tom。
纸牌游戏gin rummy首次证实于1941年（在那年《生活》杂志中被描述为最新的好莱坞时尚）；OED将其列入烈酒的条目，但其意义联系似乎模糊，仅作为对rummy的双关。
