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rickey
1[ rik-ee ]
noun
- a drink made with lime juice, carbonated water, and gin or other liquor.
Rickey
2[ rik-ee ]
noun
- (Wesley) Branch, 1881–1965, U.S. baseball executive.
rickey
/ ˈrɪkɪ /
noun
- a cocktail consisting of gin or vodka, lime juice, and soda water, served iced
a gin rickey
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Origin of rickey1
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After all, the basic Ranch Water is one lime-half away from Washington’s tart homegrown cocktail, the Rickey, which has been around since the 1800s.
One of those is Rickey Williams, the most recent Chicagaoan to file suit.
In other words, Rickey Minor knows his stuff, Idol-related or otherwise.
(Branch) Rickey selected Jackie because he knew he could withstand the guff.
The smallest rickey-drinker, not content with sounding the alarm, had gone brilliantly bolting down the beach.
Later he moved to St. Louis and invented the famous rickey, which immortalized his name—preserving it, as it were, in alcohol.
Get me a brandy smash—a sherry cobbler—a gin rickey—rock and rye—a whisky sour—a mint julep!
Jim Barron, nearest the door, responded with Ed Rickey at his heels.
When he went out, Ed Rickey came in and the boys alternated.
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