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

There’s also Pip, a brainy Border Collie who’d rather work a Rubik’s Cube than herd sheep, and Debbie, a Chihuahua sipping a raspberry mojito. —Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025

Eevee, a vodka espresso martini; Flareon, a hard apple cider with a cinnamon whiskey; Glaceon, a frozen margarita; Jolteon, a whiskey lemonade; Leafeon, a gin mojito; and Vaporeon, with blue pineapple rum. —Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025

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

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