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DictionaryjulepSweet drink
noun

julep

JOO-lip/ˈdʒuːlɪp/

A sweetened flavored drink.

Fresh mint tops the julep in a silver cup of crushed ice.

A mint julep in a traditional silver cup, heaped with crushed ice and fresh mint, beside a small measure of amber liquor, an unlabeled whiskey decanter, and a spoonful of sugar.
Etymology
julPersianrose
+epPersianwater

The Persian pieces mean “rose water,” a name also used for a sweet drink. Julep came to mean a syrupy medicinal drink, then a sugared alcoholic drink flavored with mint, originally itself a medical recipe.

In context

Bryce Conlan0:25
the mint julep in and of itself is really a pretty simple cocktail
Charles Joly: The Kentucky Derby Prospector’s Julep

More examples

  • The bartender mixes bourbon and sugar to make mint juleps.
  • She makes a nonalcoholic julep with mint, sugar, and ginger ale.
  • The pharmacist mixed the bitter medicine into a sweet julep.

Forms

julep · juleps

Similar words

cocktail
Usually an alcoholic mixed drink, not necessarily sweet or mint-flavored.
punch
Often fruit-based and served in batches rather than individual cups.