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mojito
[ moh-hee-toh ]
/ moʊˈhi toʊ /
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noun
a cocktail made with rum, sugar, lime juice, soda water, and mint.
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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”
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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.
I order a mojito, and we smoke some cigars and watch the crowd of stylish, late-twenty-somethings mingling poolside.
When Galliano sat down next to them afterward, he noted, a waitress came quickly with a mojito for the famous designer.
British Dictionary definitions for mojito
mojito
/ (məˈhiːtəʊ) /
noun plural -tos
a cocktail consisting of rum, sugar, lime, mint, and soda water
Word Origin for mojito
C20: Spanish, diminutive of mojo wet
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