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

My daiquiri en El Floridita. Ernest Hemingway And so, the most interesting man in the world here acknowledged — allegedly — that his favorite daiquiri may have been at Havana’s famed El Floridita, but for mojitos, La Bodeguita was the place. —Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 10 July 2024

For Americano’s clarified strawberry daiquiri, Hernandez uses whole milk, while heavy cream is used to add a richer texture to their pina colada. —Lisa Shames, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2024

Night Shift will offer extended hours from noon until 10 p.m. on July 4th, and will be debuting two new tipples: Firecracker American Lager and Daiquiri Sour, a strawberry daiquiri sour ale brewed with real strawberries. —Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 July 2024

The tour ends with a delicious daiquiri at one of Tremé’s many jazz clubs. —Jaha Nailah Avery, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 June 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