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🍹 A coconut drink 🥥 A small coconut
coquito

coquito

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A sweet Puerto Rican holiday drink made from coconut milk, rum, and spices
  • noun
  • /koʊˈkiːtoʊ/
  • US
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  • She learned to make coquito using her grandmother's traditional recipe.

My favorite cocktail is the new French vanilla Siroc flavored coquito.

Examples

  • You still like coquito?

    Brownsville Bred (2025)

  • During the holiday season, my family always serves coquito as a festive drink.

  • At the Christmas gathering, everyone enjoyed a glass of homemade coquito filled with coconut milk and spices.

Surface Forms

coquito singular
coquitos plural

Etymology

Coquito for the Puerto Rican holiday drink also comes from Spanish coco ('coconut') and the diminutive -ito ('little'), because the creamy, coconut-based drink is like a rich 'little coconut' treat at Christmas.