Collins
pronunciation
How to pronounce Collins in British English:
UK [ˈkɔlinz]
How to pronounce Collins in American English:
US [ˈkɑlɪnz]
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- Noun:
- tall iced drink of liquor (usually gin) with fruit juice
Word Origin
- Collins (n.)
- "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 (12c.) is from a masc. proper name, a diminutive of Col, itself a pet form of Nicholas.
Example
- 1. Collins is not the only professional to voice that opinion .
- 2. Creativity was in the collins genes .
- 3. Mrs. collins taught me a lesson in fairness that I 've never forgotten .
- 4. Charles m. blow is off today and gail collins is on book leave .
- 5. Collins never married ; instead , he kept two mistresses in london .