rickey
noun
a drink made with lime juice, carbonated water, and gin or other liquor.
rickey
1 American
[rik-ee]
/ ˈrɪk i /
noun
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rickeys
plural
Rickey
2
American
[rik-ee]
/ ˈrɪk i /
noun
rickey
British
/ ˈrɪkɪ /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of rickey
1890–95, named after a Colonel Rickey
Example Sentences
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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
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
The stories are colorful and contradictory: Was the first rickey ordered by the man himself or by one of his many thousands of close personal friends?
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2014
What must come must come; and if it were a gin rickey rather than the slavery of the repartimento system, I'd be little enough disturbed.
From San Crist?bal de la Habana by Joseph Hergesheimer
Hall of Fame baseball player Rickey Henderson once declared, “If my uniform doesn’t get dirty, I haven’t done anything in the baseball game.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
Rickey Henderson, Dave Winfield and Paul Molitor helped turn the Blue Jays into two-time champions in the early 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
The president made the remarks in response to a call by visiting American preacher Rickey Allen Bolden, who urged leaders to pursue reconciliation.
From BBC ● May 28, 2025
The tension eases, though, when Rickey finally opens up about his father’s recent death; he wants Glenn to road-trip with him to the title city for a spreading of ashes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
In 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first Negro player to break the color line in baseball, when owner Branch Rickey invited him to join the Brooklyn Dodgers and integrate what was then America’s favorite sport.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
The Rat Pack goofed around here, studio moguls kept second homes, even F. Scott Fitzgerald had a house where he hammered out screenplays between gin rickeys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2020
Unlike the Pug and Solly's, there's a cocktail menu, though gin rickeys, dark and stormies and Manhattans are as complex as the $12 drinks get.
From Washington Post
On table near body siphon of seltzer, bottle of imported limes, and glass for rickeys.
From The Silent Bullet by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
In a solitary corner of the vast piazza four coatless men sat idly drinking the rickeys of summer.
From V. V.'s Eyes by Henry Sydnor Harrison
And this was still so new an aphorism to them, that they let it alone, the party breaking up over a last round of weak rickeys squeezed from the bottle.
From Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield
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