daiquiri

noun

dai·​qui·​ri ˈda-kə-rē  ˈdī- 

: an alcoholic drink that is usually made of rum, crushed fruit or fruit juice, and sugar

a frozen strawberry daiquiri

Examples of daiquiri in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Nearby is the replica of El Floridita, where visitors can take a photo next to the statue of the bar’s most famous customer at the entrance on Obispo Street, Ernest Hemingway, who would order his daiquiri with no sugar. —Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 17 May 2024

Finally, cool off with a refreshing daiquiri at the Big Easy Daiquiri or New Orleans Original Daquiri. —Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2024

Get the recipe > Hemingway Special At Floridita bar, this daiquiri tart with fresh grapefruit and lime juices was a regular order of author Ernest Hemingway. —Saveur Editors, Saveur, 11 Apr. 2024

The bartenders at El Floridita made a few substantial changes to the classic daiquiri to accommodate Hemingway's requests. —Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2024

La Boca builds on a traditional Hemingway special daiquiri but adds Equiano dark rum, blended in Barbados. —Fritz Hahn, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024

The new flavor of strawberry daiquiri, as well as the other eight cocktails currently in their portfolio, is available at liquor stores across the United States. —Jeanette Hurt, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024

On The Rocks is betting the strawberry daiquiri could return to popularity, as this ready-to-drink cocktail brand is introducing it to their line-up. —Jeanette Hurt, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024

Lunch outdoors while sipping a daiquiri at The Frosty Frog Cafe in Coligny Plaza, then head out for souvenir shopping at the stores nearby. —Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024

Word History

Etymology

after Daiquirí, village and beach east of santiago de cuba

Note: Invention of the drink has been attributed to Jennings Stockton Cox, Jr. (1866 or 67-1913), an American mining engineer who was general manager of the Spanish-American Iron company (see New York Times obituary, September 2, 1913, p. 7). Mines developed by the company were located in the mountains several miles north of Daiquirí. An early attribution of the drink to Cox is by the journalist and fiction writer Richard Harding Davis ("Breaking into the Movies," Scribner's Magazine, vol. 55, no. 3, March, 1914, p. 284): "And for our immedate needs there were … at disturbingly frequent intervals trays loaded with the insidious Daiquiri cocktail. This latter is the creation of the late Jennings S. Cox, for some time manager of the iron mines, and it is as genial and as brimful of brotherly love as was the man who invented it. It consists of Barcardi [sic] rum, limes, sugar and cracked ice …." The papers and photographs of the Cuban socialite Carmen Puig, part of the Cuban Heritage Collection of the University of Miami Library, contain a handwritten recipe for the drink purporting to be Cox's original (see scanned view at the library's Digital Collections website).

First Known Use

1920, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

daiquiri

noun

dai·​qui·​ri ˈdak-ə-rē  ˈdī-kə- 

: a cocktail made usually of rum, lime juice, and sugar