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

Try calafate in desserts like mousses, tarts, and beverages, including calafate sours and mojitos. —AFAR Media, 23 Dec. 2024

Word is, Julia and Adriana’s bond will be pulverized like mint in a mojito over the course of Real Housewives of Miami season seven. —Eddie Mouradian, Vulture, 11 June 2025

The late-night spot serves up a range of chai along with sparkling nonalcoholic fruited mojitos, milkshakes, and Pakistani street food until midnight, with regulars posting up and playing board games. —Emily Bloch, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 May 2025

The vape smells like a mojito that’s gone a bit sour. —Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 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