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means A cocktail of gin (or vodka) shaken with lime juice, named after the same sharp little word used for a small boring tool — because the drink is supposed to bore into you like one.

from Most dictionaries trace the drink's name to the gimlet, a hand tool with a screw-tip for boring small holes — the cocktail was said to go down with a similarly sharp, piercing effect. A popular secondary story credits a Royal Navy surgeon named Gimlette, who supposedly pushed lime juice on gin-drinking officers to ward off scurvy; it's a tidy tale, but the tool origin is the one etymologists actually back. The word 'gimlet' itself goes back through French 'guimbelet' to a Germanic root for 'auger' or 'wimble,' so even the tool's name has its own long boring history.