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Vinony

Gibson

proper noun

  1. family name
  2. guitar manufacturer
  3. place name
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪbsən/

name

Etymology: From Gibb + -son.

  1. An English and Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
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  20. A community in Tiny township, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.
  21. A small town in the Shire of Esperance, Western Australia.

noun

Etymology: From Gibb + -son.

  1. A cocktail made with gin (or vodka) and vermouth, garnished with cocktail onions.

    “"I doubt it, Tommy," the Majority Leader said, coming up behind him so unexpectedly that the little Justice jumped and almost spilled his Gibson.”

    “I found Willie in the airport bar drinking a Gibson.”

  2. An acoustic or electric guitar made by the Gibson company.

    “Many older Gibsons have become collector's items: […] But older Gibsons are also good player's guitars.”

    “We'd like to think that his spirit lives on under the western sky he so loved, strumming his Gibson somewhere and belting out a Woody Guthrie ballad to an audience of coyotes and rabbitbrush.”