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strawberry daiquiri

strawberry daiquiri

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A cold sweet drink with rum and crushed strawberries, often blended
  • noun
  • /ˈstrɔːbəri ˈdaɪkəri/
translation icon : daiquiri de fresa
  • She toasted with her strawberry daiquiri, celebrating her graduation with friends.

Examples

  • Nursed a strawberry daiquiri and worried about time like a bone.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • That included having a strawberry daiquiri when I went out for dinner and a glass of wine... and a few mouthfuls of chocolate cake.

    Blog text (12)

  • "Maybe he's gonna serve me "my strawberry daiquiri and onion rings, "or maybe he's gonna go postal on my ass!"

    One Night at McCool's (2001)

  • I heard the girl there (a friend of Sue's) say, "Why no, I don't care much for liquor myself unless, of course, I'm having a strawberry daiquiri."

    Fiction book (1992)

  • I'll have a strawberry daiquiri to cool off on this hot day.

  • At the beach bar, I ordered a refreshing strawberry daiquiri blended with ice.

Surface Forms

strawberry daiquiri singular
strawberry daiquiris plural

Morphology

strawberry + daiquiri

The phrase denotes a daiquiri that includes strawberries, so its meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'strawberry' (the fruit) + 'daiquiri' (a rum-and-lime cocktail). This noun-modifier pattern is common and predictable cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.

Etymology

Strawberry daiquiri gets its name from putting crushed strawberries into a classic daiquiri. One popular story says the original daiquiri was a simple mix of rum, lime and sugar from a place called Daiquiri in Cuba, and when people blended the fruit with ice the name came to mean the sweet, frozen 'cocktail' we order today.