licuado

From Spanish licuado.

licuado (plural licuados)

1. A Latin American handmade blended beverage similar to a smoothie, made with milk, fruit, and usually ice.
   • 2002 November 11, Maria Elena Fernandez, “Shake-up in latte land”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[1], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 May 2025:

     “I come in every morning on my way to work to get my strawberry licuado and my coffee because it’s fast, very tasty and I know it’s good for me,” said Jose Perez, 30, a furniture salesman who grew up drinking licuados in Mexico.

   • 2004 December 26, Joyce Maynard, “In Guatemala, Bliss by a Blue Lake”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 3 May 2018:

     I also love the fresh fruit licuados at Moonfish (also on the shores of the lake), the nightly, family-style vegetarian spread at La Paz, the tiramisú of Il Jardino, and the mojitos at the outdoor lakeside bar of Hotel Jinava, […].

   • 2011 March 25, Nicholas Gill, “The Five-Point Weekend Escape Plan: Swim With Whale Sharks in Utila”, in New York‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 February 2012:

     Cool off with a fruity licuado ($2) on the patio at Munchies […], located in the Island House, a wooden structure that dates back to 1864.

• licuado on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IPA^(key): /liˈkwado/ [liˈkwa.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: li‧cua‧do

licuado m (plural licuados)

1. (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, Rioplatense, Panama) smoothie

   Synonym: batido

licuado (feminine licuada, masculine plural licuados, feminine plural licuadas)

1. past participle of licuar

• “licuado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024