Long Island iced tea

American  

1. a mixed drink of tequila, rum, vodka, gin, curaçao, cola, lemon juice, and sugar.

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Usage

What does Long Island Iced Tea mean? Commonly shortened to Long Island and sometimes LIIT, the mixed alcoholic drink officially calls for gin, tequila, vodka, white rum, triple sec, Gomme sugar syrup, lemon juice, and a splash of cola.

Etymology

Origin of Long Island iced tea

1980–85

Example Sentences

Most famously, the Long Island Iced Tea Corporation became the Long Blockchain Corporation, and its stock rose nearly 300 percent in a day.

From New York Times

“Naïvely, going into it I thought, ‘We’ll do this two, three years,’” said Mr. Rothbaum, 43, associate editor on the mammoth project, which runs nearly 900 pages and includes more than 1,150 entries on everything from Lao-Lao, a Laotian rice spirit, to the Long Island Iced Tea.

From New York Times

The Long Island Iced Tea, here named after nearby Long Island City, is made with clarified lime juice and homemade cola syrup.

From New York Times

Securities and Exchange Commission said Eric Watson, who controlled more than 30% of Long Island Iced Tea shares, leaked the news to his friend and broker Oliver-Barret Lindsay, who passed it to his friend Gannon Giguiere, a stock promoter.

From Reuters

According to the SEC, Giguiere bought 35,000 Long Island Iced Tea shares on Dec. 20, 2017, and sold them the next day for a $162,500 profit less than two hours after the Farmingdale, New York-based company’s self-described “pivot” became public.

From Reuters