El Presidente

A form of presidente — A Cuban cocktail made from rum, curaçao, dry vermouth, and grenadine that is stirred or shaken with cracked ice.

Meanings

nounEl Presidente (plural El Presidentes)

plural El Presidentes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of presidente.

    I first sipped an El Presidente fifteen years ago, in Havana, at a sidewalk café across from a vendor selling postcards of Che Guevara. It was revelatory.

    December 2019/January 2020, Wayne Curtis, “Discover Cuba’s Other Rum Cocktail: El Presidente”, in Garden & Gun, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2021

Origin

  1. Spanishel presidente“the president”
  2. EnglishEl Presidente

Borrowed from Spanish el presidente (“the president”).

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APA

El Presidente. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/El%20Presidente

MLA

“El Presidente.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/El%20Presidente. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “El Presidente,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/El%20Presidente.

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