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• rickey
  rickey

  noun

  a drink made with lime juice, carbonated water, and gin or other liquor.
• Rickey
  Rickey

  noun

  (Wesley) Branch, 1881–1965, U.S. baseball executive.

rickey

¹ American  

[rik-ee] / ˈrɪk i /

noun

rickeys plural

1. a drink made with lime juice, carbonated water, and gin or other liquor.

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Rickey ² American  

[rik-ee] / ˈrɪk i /

noun

1. (Wesley) Branch, 1881–1965, U.S. baseball executive.

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rickey British  

/ ˈrɪkɪ /

noun

1. a cocktail consisting of gin or vodka, lime juice, and soda water, served iced

   a gin rickey

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Inflected Forms

noun

• rickeys
  plural

Etymology

Origin of rickey

1890–95, named after a Colonel Rickey

Example Sentences

Everyone gets a D.C. rickey to start, followed by a choice of four of the global drinks, complete with map, of course.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2017

My favourite is New Columbia Distillers, which has created three gins, including a spring/summer one that makes a mean gin rickey.

From The Guardian • Oct. 29, 2015

Meanwhile, if you ask for a lime rickey in a certain kind of New England restaurant, you will get an old-school treat rich with sugar and soda-shop Americana.

From Slate • Jul. 3, 2014

Here was a woman who had lived for 10 years in Washington, D.C., where the rickey was born in the late 1800s and revived in the early 2000s.

From Slate • Jul. 3, 2014

Another drink which originated in St. Louis is the gin rickey.

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