mojito

noun

mo·​ji·​to mō-ˈhē-tō 

plural mojitos

: a cocktail made of rum, sugar, mint, lime juice, and soda water

Examples of mojito in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The drinks menu includes bottled, canned and draft beers; red, white and sparkling wines, including sangria; tequila flights; and specialty cocktails such as the Saltyrita, spicy watermelon fresca, grapefruit mojito and paloma. —Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 9 Sep. 2025

Tallas chose to eat the classic Key lime pie, but Fookem’s also makes other flavors, including guava, passionfruit, espresso, mango, coconut, mojito and pistachio. —Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025

Think daiquiri and mojito, for example. —Claudia Alarcón, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025

The menu will include classic cocktails such as an old fashioned, margarita, mojito, screwdriver and Long Island ice tea, Kharel said. —Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from Cuban Spanish, diminutive of mojo mojo

Note: The unsuffixed word mojo is recorded in the sense "bebida compuesta de ron, azúcar, limón y agua gaseosa" ("drink consisting of rum, sugar, lemon y soda water") in Un catauro de cubanismos: apuntes lexicográficos (Havana: 1923) by the Cuban essayist and scholar Fernando Ortiz, a collection originally published a year earlier in the journal Revista bimestre cubana.

First Known Use

1934, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for mojito

• bonito
• burrito
• capito
• mosquito
• negrito
• incognito
• peto
• veto