piña colada

[peen-yuh koh-lah-duh, kuh-lah-]

pi·ña co·la·da

[peen-yuh koh-lah-duh, kuh-lah-]
noun
1.
a tall mixed drink of rum, cream of coconut, pineapple juice, and ice usually frappéed in a blender.
2.
a flavor of ice cream, soft drinks, etc., made with coconut milk and pineapple juice.

Origin:
1920–25; < Spanish: literally, strained pineapple
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To piña colada

00:10

00:09

00:08

00:07

00:06

00:05

00:04

00:03

00:02

00:01

Piña colada has a plethora of syllables.
So is sesquipedalianism. Does it mean:
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C14H9Cl5, usually derived from chloral by reaction with chlorobenzene in the presence of fuming sulfuric acid: used as an insecticide and as a scabicide and pediculicide: agricultural use prohibited in the U.S.
given to using long words.
Collins
World English Dictionary
piña colada (ˈpiːnjə kəˈlɑːdə)
 
n
a drink consisting of pineapple juice, coconut, and rum
 
[C20: from Spanish, literally: strained pineapple]

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT