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mai tai

/ˈmaɪ ˈtaɪ/

mai tai noun: a cocktail typically containing rum, curacao, and lime.

mai tai: a cocktail typically containing rum, curacao, and lime
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Noun (1)

mai tai (plural mai tais)

  1. A cocktail typically containing rum, curacao, and lime.

Noun (2) capitalized: Mai Tai

Mai Tai (plural Mai Tais)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of mai tai.

Forms of mai tai

pluralmai tais
alternative formMai Tai
pluralMai Tais

Origin of mai tai

Borrowed from Tahitian maitaʻi (“good”), supposedly exclaimed by the first person to taste the drink. The spelling with a space may be influenced by folk-etymological association with the unrelated word Thai /Tai.

Words formed from mai tai

Questions about mai tai

What does mai tai mean?
Mai tai means a cocktail typically containing rum, curacao, and lime.
What part of speech is mai tai?
Mai tai is a noun.
How do you pronounce mai tai?
Mai tai is pronounced /ˈmaɪ ˈtaɪ/.
What is the plural of mai tai?
The plural of mai tai is mai tais.

Words near mai tai in the dictionary

  1. Mahāmāyūrī
  2. Mahāpratisarā
  3. Mahāsthāmaprāpta
  4. mai
  5. mai fun
  6. mai tai
  7. mai tais
  8. mai tu liao
  9. mai-baap
  10. Mai-kai-t'i
  11. Mai-Tini

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mai tai (page history and authors); Mai Tai (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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