Cryptic crossword clue
Drinks and traps 4

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word GINS

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What does GINS mean?

1. A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.
2. Gin rummy.
3. Drawing the best card or combination of cards.

1. A trick; a device or instrument.
2. Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
3. A snare or trap for game.
4. A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
5. A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
6. A pile driver.
7. A windpump.
8. A cotton gin.
9. An instrument of torture worked with screws.

1. To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
2. To trap something in a gin.

1. To begin.

1. An Aboriginal woman.

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