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daiquiri

American  
[dahy-kuh-ree, dak-uh-] / ˈdaɪ kə ri, ˈdæk ə- /

noun

  • daiquiris
    plural
  1. a cocktail of rum, lemon or lime juice, and sugar, often with the addition of fruit and ice and mixed in an electric blender.

    a frozen banana daiquiri.


daiquiri British  
/ ˈdaɪkɪrɪ, ˈdæk- /

noun

  1. an iced drink containing rum, lime juice, and syrup or sugar

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of daiquiri

First recorded in 1915–20; named after Daiquirí, town on the east coast of Cuba


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Struggling to follow the rules as they were presented to us: work hard, fly straight, die on the beach with a daiquiri in hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

Cook had long been dreaming of being on a beach in Tunisia with a strawberry daiquiri.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2024

Less than two years later he was on “Dancing With the Stars” dressed like a frozen daiquiri, looking for salvation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024

I absolutely loved my cocktail: a Hemingway daiquiri augmented with the should-be-better-known citrusy pop Squirt, which cleverly came served in an open-topped Squirt can with a big frizzle of fresh mint for garnish.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2023

The elegant young man spilled his daiquiri on his bottle-green velvet jacket.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

That intersection is home to a packed tourist hotel, a store selling ice cream and chocolate fudge and restaurants selling oysters and daiquiris in large plastic to-go cups.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2025

The city needed something different, somewhere safe for Louisianans to sip their daiquiris and hoot and holler in peace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2023

Meanwhile bartenders are having to adjust how they serve cocktails — especially classic cocktails like daiquiris and mules, which rely on lime.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2022

Four weeks of February baths, daiquiris and afternoon dance parties is a jarring proposition for a team of people acutely aware of their work’s urgency.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2022

He planned to get enough wealth to buy the entire farm and spend the rest of his days sipping strawberry daiquiris and conversing with MacDonald Lindsay about the joys of being affluent.

From Abducted to Oz by Bob Evans

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