michelada

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish michelada.

michelada (plural micheladas)

1. A Mexican cocktail made with beer, tomato juice, lime juice, and various assorted sauces and spices.
   • 2009 July 1, Betsy Andrews, “Cocktails Dance on the Head of a Beer”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     In New York, at PDT and Mayahuel, they’re mixing hot sauce, mezcal and beer to create smoky riffs on the michelada, a classic Mexican cerveza preparada, or prepared beer.

Uncertain; two theories are often proposed:

• From Michel +‎ -ada, named after former member of the Club Deportivo Potosino Michel Ésper, who is said to have invented the cocktail.^[1]
• From a univerbation of mi chela helada, literally “my ice-cold beer”, though likely a folk etymology.

• IPA^(key): /mit͡ʃeˈlada/ [mi.t͡ʃeˈla.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: mi‧che‧la‧da

michelada f (plural micheladas)

1. michelada

• “michelada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025