Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cocktail made of rum, sugar, lime juice, crushed mint leaves, soda water, and shaved ice.
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- noun A
Cuban cocktail made fromrum ,lime ,sugar ,mint etc.
Etymologies
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Examples
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When did lemonade with mint become a “virgin mojito”?
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Quoth Wikipedia: "A mojito is traditionally made of five ingredients: spearmint, rum, sugar (traditionally sugar cane juice), lime, and carbonated water."
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Quoth Wikipedia: "A mojito is traditionally made of five ingredients: spearmint, rum, sugar (traditionally sugar cane juice), lime, and carbonated water."
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Although tempted, I decided to pass on the Marani Spirit cocktails that were being served and opt for a Mojito Island virgin mojito since I had some writing to do.www. maranispirit.com, www. mojitoisland.com
Luxe Hotel Hosts For the Love of Shopping Charity Event 2007
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Quoth Wikipedia: "A mojito is traditionally made of five ingredients: spearmint, rum, sugar (traditionally sugar cane juice), lime, and carbonated water."
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I guess a mojito is the going rate for a quick feel.
The High Road: Of Missiles and Missionaries BikeSnobNYC 2010
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The mojito is the only drink that isn't just a mixture of booze and neon-colored sugar.
Mojito Cake roopa 2009
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While we generally go to Riesling or Gewürztraminer with pork, because Chef Pernot thinks a mojito is the right taste -- with its flavors of mint and lime -- it seems to us that one of New Zealand's firecracker Sauvignon Blancs would be perfect.
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When the mojito was the “It” drink, most people ordered and drank it, not because they truly liked it see #1, but for the express reason that the mojito was the “It” drink.
Blended Mojitos - Already Annoyingly Complicated, but Leave it to... 2007
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Or try a bacon and habanero pepper mojito, which is topped with bacon crumbles, or an apple-bacon martini, which is garnished with a strip of bacon instead of olives.
Thestar.com - Home Page Jenni Dunning 2010
oroboros commented on the word mojito
this was supposedly Ernest Hemingway's favorite drink according to his grandson, as heard on NPR
December 15, 2006