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One's gin and it designed for drinking, perhaps (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ingestion

'for drinking perhaps' is the definition.
(drinking is a kind of ingestion)

'one's gin and it designed' is the wordplay.
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'designed' is an anagram indicator (designed with the letters).
'ones'+'gin'='onesgin'
'onesgin' put after 'it' is 'itonesgin'.
'itonesgin' anagrammed gives 'INGESTION'.

(Another definition for ingestion that I've seen is " Taking in".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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