margarita

plural margaritas · alternative Margarita

1. countableuncountableA cocktail made with tequila, an orange-flavoured liqueur, and lemon or lime juice, often served with salt encrusted on the rim of the glass.

   In the summer, he’s posted on the corner with his BMX sipping margarita from a styrofoam cup and in the winter he’s indoors with his PlayStation and blunt.

   2007 spring, Justine D., “Wanna Battle?”, in Mary H.K. Choi, editor, Missbehave, number 3, Brooklyn, N.Y.: Adrian Moeller, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21, column 1

   Synonyms: marg

plural Margaritas

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.

   “I didn’t think you loved me so much as this, my Margarita!” he said, in a broken voice. She did not answer, but she clung to him as a child clings to its mother, and the end was, they remained in town together. It seemed as though Fate interposed to prevent the two Margaritas meeting again.

   1874 December 26, Florence Marryat, “Fighting the Air”, in The Penny Despatch […], New Series, volume II, number 30, →OCLC, chapter XVI (Laurence Fane Is Ruined), page 474, column 1

plural Margaritas

1. countableuncountableAlternative letter-case form of margarita.

   You: Gray hair, 50-ish, dark red button-up shirt, black pants, sipping Margarita alone at table.

   2009 April 10, “A Shot in the Dark”, in Louis Black, editor, The Austin Chronicle, volume 28, number 32, Austin, Tex.: The Austin Chronicle Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 119, column 1

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   Anyway, hope you don’t get this coz you’re off somewhere cool, sipping Margarita and getting over yourself.

   2008, Rodge Glass, “A Postcard with a Picture of Three Bare Tanned Backsides Baking Under a Foreign Sun on One Side, and Some Very Small, Very Neat Handwriting on the Other”, in Hope for Newborns, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 207

   Sipping salty Margaritas I’d finally started to feel as if we’d lived through something terrible and world-altering but ridden it out, survived.

   2019, B[everley] E. Jones, “Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona”, in Wilderness, London: Constable, published 2020, →ISBN, page 52