Talk:cotton gin
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RFV for the slang sense "Any mechanism that separates one person from another, whether it be distance, time, or apathy", which has the example sentence "She really put me in the cotton gin when she wouldn't call me back." and the editorial comment "the originator of this definition says that the slang term is British - but the cotton gin is unknown in Britain, cotton being cleaned up at source." I am unfamiliar with this sense, and it sounds unidiomatic; I'd imagine that "put me through the cotton gin" would be more natural, and surely the "cotton" element would be dropped, so that people would say "put me through the gin", if they used it at all. I'm so meta even this acronym (talk) 13:59, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
- RFV failed: no citations provided. As an auxiliary check, the sense seems absent from all online dicts; not even Urban Dictionary has this sense. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:19, 21 August 2013 (UTC)