mojito

[ moh-hee-toh ]

noun

a cocktail made with rum, sugar, lime juice, soda water, and mint.

Origin of mojito

First recorded in 1930–35; from Latin American Spanish (Cuba), diminutive of Spanish mojo orange sauce or marinade, from mojar “to make wet”

Words Nearby mojito

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How to use mojito in a sentence

There’s a restaurant in a hip neighborhood of Cape Town that serves a mean mojito.
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I order a mojito, and we smoke some cigars and watch the crowd of stylish, late-twenty-somethings mingling poolside.
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When Galliano sat down next to them afterward, he noted, a waitress came quickly with a mojito for the famous designer.
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British Dictionary definitions for mojito

mojito

/ (məˈhiːtəʊ) /

nounplural -tos

a cocktail consisting of rum, sugar, lime, mint, and soda water

Origin of mojito

C20: Spanish, diminutive of mojo wet

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