Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An iced cocktail of rum, lime or lemon juice, and sugar.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. an alcoholic beverage containing rum and lime or lemon juice, usually mixed with a fruit juice or fruit extract and often blended with crushed ice.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a cocktail made with rum and lime or lemon juice
Etymologies
- After Daiquirí, a village of eastern Cuba. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“What keeps me out of the conversation, nursing this daiquiri, is less the gossip than the topic.”
“For years it was run by the bar artist Constantino Ribalaigua Vert, and the daiquiri was his David.”
“When "daiquiri" is called, reach over your partner's arm to the arm of the next girl, but don't go anywhere yet!”
“And their white mixing rum, Blanco Añejo, makes the best daiquiri I've ever tasted.”
“And their white mixing rum, Blanco Añejo, makes the best daiquiri I've ever tasted.”
“A friend of mine said of a DonQ daiquiri, "This is the happiest daiquiri I've ever had.”
“Well, it's time to reclaim the daiquiri, and it's time to bring white rum out of the shadows.”
“Sensational just about any way you want to serve it, and absolutely superb in a daiquiri.”
“In the end, though, my quibble is a minor one -- this rum does a daiquiri justice and then some.”
“Stick it in a daiquiri and the lime juice and sugar will mask some, but not all, of the harshness.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘daiquiri’.
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250 Spelling Words
A selected sampling of words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
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Words I Misspell
There are words suffering from a butcher.
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Cocktails: Drink Up. The Night is Young!
Have some liquor to help the orange juice go down.
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Flutter
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kewpid's Words
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Just 'cause I like 'em, D
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All Those Jazz Words
Words coined or popularized during the Roaring '20s.
back-seat driver, jalopy, step on it, cop a plea, fuzz, gimmick, hijack, speakeasy, to take (someone)..., cockeyed, scofflaw, shellacked and 74 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
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micellaneous
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
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Words which have their spelling WAY d...
Boggle
colonel, subtle, great, Wednesday, psychology, psychic, pneumonia, daiquiri, fiery, guarantee, hierarchy, receipt and 22 more...
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'Wasted' Words
Alcohol-related words that tickle the ear & the fancy
absinthe, ambrosial, Bordeaux, burgundy, bibulous, wineskin, champagne, claret, corkscrew, drip dickey, frizzante, flagon and 74 more...
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food and wine
bellini, lambrusco, frangelico, asti, prosecco, rosato, bianco, rosso, limoncello, amore, béchamel, chianti and 66 more...
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happy hour
martini, bellini, mimosa, beer, seabreeze, cosmopolitan, manhattan, gin, bourbon, rum, tequila, amaretto and 71 more...
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cocktails I can prepare without consu...
martini, manhattan, bloody mary, champagne cocktail, screwdriver, old-fashioned, cosmopolitan, tom collins, mojito, white russian, daiquiri, margarita and 3 more...
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The Roaring Twenties
A selection of words and phrases that entered the language between 1920 and 1929. Primary sources for this list are:
There's a Word For It by Sol Steinmetz (2010, Harmony Books, New Y...nobrow, booboisie, robot, It girl, scofflaw, Babbitt, bozo, feedback, icky, daiquiri, subprime, T-shirt and 27 more...
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