/ · 1894 Brewer’s · G · Gin Sling
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A drink made of gin and water, sweetened and flavoured. “Sling” = Collins, the inventor, contracted into cʹlins, and perverted into slings.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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