rickeyn.

1889 Washington Post 30 June 16/3 Another drink that is a favorite with a class of drinkers is the Joe Rickey, which George Williamson and Taylor Hunt supply their customers at Shoemaker's. This drink was invented by Joseph Rickey himself, who used to have it concocted at Shoemaker's, and it has since been introduced to the patrons of the house generally.

1890 Washington Post 13 July 9 The Joe Rickey..tastes like a sour lemonade on a big booze. The waiter brings you a goblet of cracked ice in which is a squeezed half lime. You pour in your drink of whisky, and the darkey siphons in enough seltzer to fill the glass.]

1893 Philadelphia Inquirer 8 Dec. 3 The Ricci is served in a long glass, and is made of lime juice, whisky and seltzer. It is cooled by cracked ice... There is also another Ricci, in which gin takes the place of whiskey.

1894 Boston Globe 15 July 4/1 One of the most delicious and cooling of summer beverages is the ‘rickey’. To concoct a ‘rickey’, it is absolutely necessary that one should have limes.

1899 C. M. Skinner Myths & Legends Beyond our Borders 248 Tom Collins, high ball, whiskey rickey, gin sling, silver fizz, [etc.].

1900 Merck's Arch. Sept. p. xi. (advt.) Will you try a ‘Carnogen Rickey’ (tablespoonful Carnogen, half a lime and iced carbonic)?

1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby vii. 140 Tom came back, preceding four gin rickeys.

1945 P. Cheyney I'll say she Does! iii. 72 The lyin' woman is like a gin ricky without any gin.

1975 M. Amis Dead Babies xiii. 67 By 12.30, Giles had consumed five gin-rickies, four gin-and-tonics, three gin-and-its, two gin-and-bitters, and one gin.

2000 D. J. Boyne Red Rose Crew (2001) 114 The lime rickey was a local drink that she'd developed a taste for, made from lime juice, soda water, and sugar.