Sprite
A colourless, caffeine-free, lemon and lime-flavoured soft drink.
Proper noun
- A colourless, caffeine-free, lemon and lime-flavoured soft drink.
Origin
In the early 1940s, Coca-Cola started running an advertising campaign featuring an elf-like figure called “Sprite Boy” (see sprite (“elf”)). The name originated from the previous Coca-Cola campaign, but it was a focus group that ultimately chose the name “Sprite”.