Crossword clues for daiquiri
daiquiri
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
daiquiri \daiquiri\ n. an alcoholic beverage containing rum and lime or lemon juice, usually mixed with a fruit juice or fruit extract and often blended with crushed ice; as, a strawberry daiquiri.
Syn: rum cocktail. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of alcoholic drink, 1920 (first recorded in F. Scott Fitzgerald), from Daiquiri, name of a district or village in eastern Cuba.
Wiktionary
n. A cocktail of rum, lemon or lime juice and sugar, sometimes with fruit added.
WordNet
n. a cocktail made with rum and lime or lemon juice [syn: rum cocktail]
Wikipedia
Daiquiri (; ) is a family of cocktails whose main ingredients are rum, citrus juice (typically lime juice), and sugar or other sweetener.
The daiquiri is one of the six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury's classic The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks. In the book, he also suggests some variations.
Daiquirí is a small village, 14 miles east of Santiago de Cuba. It became a focal point of the United States invasion of Cuba in the Spanish–American War.
Usage examples of "daiquiri".
Daiquiri does have the taste of limeade, riding like oil on the top of a raw transparent taste.
The enemy was struck early June 24, entrenched on the heights of La Guasima, near Sevilla, on the main road from Daiquiri to the city of Santiago de Cuba.
I made another blender full of daiquiris and called the police and told them not to hurry, nobody here was going anywhere.
They contributed their bottle of Jamaica rum to the cache, made a couple of daiquiris, and went out onto the terrace.
He set down his glass of chilled daiquiris, and padded in his socks across to the telephone table.
Rho ushers her guests through the house and onto the deck, where they settle into the new patio furniture and the first round of cold daiquiris.
Over the years, Helen had fixed herself pifia coladas and Mudslides and daiquiris, Cosmopolitans and Appletinis.
After a long and tiring day, he wended his way up to the bar still in APES makeup and costumeand asked for a banana daiquiri.
Twenty percent off blenders and a complimentary bottle of daiquiri mix to the first twenty customers.
She was dressed in trendy workout gear—tight shorts, two tank tops (one pink, one white), spotless white socks, spotless workout shoes—and sipped her daiquiri (she'd brought a cooler full of them) while she watched Caitlyn work out.
In the meantime he felt a straight lime daiquiri coming on, so he strolled down the boardwalk to the Banana Boat, greeting all he met as they greeted him.
And there, at my gangplank, slender and graceful as a young birch tree, dressed in a pale high fashion gray, five matched pieces of luggage standing beside her, cab driver hovering in the background, stood Miss Debra Brown, Calvin Stebber's disciplined cigar-lighter and daiquiri mixer, her crystal mint eyes alight with mischief and promise.
The waitress acts shocked that a woman might order a beer and a shot rather than some frozen daiquiri product, and I shoot her a look that sends her off toward a group of people she thinks might find her cute.
He had an outstanding and very past-due bar tab there of $361, almost all for Coors longnecks and lemon daiquiris, and he really wanted to clear the debt.
Sam, the cheerful white-jacketed barman, administered his nightly array of rum punches, beers, juices, Cokes, daiquiris, and soda-mixers to help down the fiery shots of Mount Gay rum.