The gimlet is a cocktail typically made of gin or vodka and lime juice. A 1928 description of the drink was: "gin, a spot of lime, and soda" (D. B. Wesson, I'll never be Cured III).

A 1953 description was: "a real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's Lime Juice and nothing else" (Terry Lennox in Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye). The Savoy Cocktail Book (1999 edition, first published in 1930) contains the following recipe: The Savoy Cocktail Book also has a recipe for the "Gimblet Cocktail": Eric Felten gave this gimlet recipe in his 'How's Your Drink Column' in the Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition of [August 4]] 2006:

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