rickey

¹

[ rik-ee ]

noun

, plural rick·eys.

1. a drink made with lime juice, carbonated water, and gin or other liquor.

Rickey

²

[ rik-ee ]

noun

1. (Wesley) Branch, 1881–1965, U.S. baseball executive.

rickey

/ ˈrɪkɪ /

noun

1. a cocktail consisting of gin or vodka, lime juice, and soda water, served iced

   a gin rickey

Word History and Origins

Origin of rickey¹

1890–95, Americanism; named after a Colonel Rickey

Word History and Origins

Origin of rickey¹

C19: of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

What’s the point, you ask, of a gin rickey without any gin?

From Seattle Times

Usually, the mango sticky rice is a little too ambitious for me, and I fall back on the more streamlined and refreshing Tom Yum, a kind of vodka rickey with lemongrass and lime leaf.

From New York Times

None of this bothered me at Veselka, although I did learn quickly that it’s pretty hard to drink a cherry lime rickey when you have a patch of pleated cotton tied over your mouth.

From New York Times

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

A gin highball with absinthe in its veins, the tritter rickey is perhaps not as urgently refreshing now as it was this summer, when I first inhaled it.

From New York Times