gin rickey
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7.5
- noun
- /dʒɪn ˈrɪki/
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gin rickey
- On a hot summer day, I enjoy sipping a refreshing gin rickey by the pool.
Examples
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BUBBA, FIX ME A GIN RICKEY.
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I ordered a Gin Rickey.
Blog text (11) -
WOULD YOU LIKE A GIN RICKEY?
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Sorry, but I want to slam a couple of gin rickeys and take a nap, and I don't want to worry that your kid is going to start a tantrum just as I finally fall asleep.
Blog text (31) -
I'D LIKE TO HAVE A GIN RICKEY.
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Every minute of every day you've got flies everywhere: up your nose, in your mouth, your ears, your eyes, flies in your rice, your Coke, your Singapore sling, and your gin rickey.
Fiction book (1993) -
Would you like a gin rickey with your dinner?
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At the party, everyone was enjoying their gin rickeys while chatting and laughing.
Synonyms
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9.1
A cold drink of sweetened lime juice and soda water with gin or bourbon
How Alcoholic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound name is directly compositional: 'gin' names the spirit and 'rickey' denotes a lime-and-soda drink, so a 'gin rickey' is predictably the rickey made with gin. This follows a regular productive naming pattern for cocktails (e.g. 'vodka tonic') that is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the meaning.
Etymology
The cocktail gin rickey may be named after a Washington man called Rickey. One popular story says a bartender mixed gin with lime and fizzy water for him, and people began to call the drink by his name, so today gin rickey means a cold, refreshing drink of gin, lime, and fizzy water.