daiquiri
Americannoun
noun
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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
An old shed has been re-imagined as a service window with a menu of Japanese riffs on cocktail classics — such as a margarita with yuzu instead of orange liquor, and an iced coffee daiquiri.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
The bartender slammed the beer and the daiquiri down just as the bus was starting off on its journey in the vortex.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
“We used the code destruction blender for making banana daiquiris and mai tais.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025
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
Traveling from 25-degree Sioux Falls to 85-degree Havana and being served frozen daiquiris upon arrival, the South Dakotans reacted to the trip with wonderment.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 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
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 Evans, Bob
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