About The Word Cocktail
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Cocktail
Cocktail Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Cocktail?
[n] an appetizer served as a first course at a meal
[n] a short mixed drink Synonyms | Synonyms for Cocktail: Related Terms | Find terms related to Cocktail: alto-cumulus | alto-stratus | anvil cloud | aperitif | banner cloud | billowy cloud | cap cloud | chaser | cirro-cumulus | cirro-fillum | cirro-nebula | cirro-stratus | cirro-velum | cirrus | cirrus cloud | cirrus haze | cirrus stripe | cloud | cloud band | cloud bank | cloud drift | cloud mass | cloud street | Cloudcuckooland | cloudland | cloudling | cloudscape | cottony cloud | cumulo-cirro-stratus | cumulo-cirrus | cumulo-nimbus | cumulo-stratus | cumulus | cumulus cloud | curl cloud | doch-an-dorrach | drink | eye-opener | fleecy cloud | fractocumulus | high fog | highball | knockout drops | mackerel sky | mammatocumulus | Mickey | Mickey Finn | mixed drink | mushroom cloud | nightcap | nimbus | nimbus cloud | parting cup | pousse-cafe | punch | rain cloud | scud | snail cloud | squall cloud | stirrup cup | storm cloud | strato-cumulus | stratus | stratus cloud | sundowner | thundercloud | thunderhead | water carrier | wee doch-an-dorrach | woolpack See Also | appetiser | appetizer | Bloody Mary | bullshot | crab cocktail | daiquiri | fruit cocktail | gimlet | gin and it | grasshopper | Harvey Wallbanger | manhattan | margarita | martini | mixed drink | old fashioned | pink lady | planter's punch | rum cocktail | Sazerac | screwdriver | shrimp cocktail | sidecar | sour | starter | stinger Cocktail In Webster's Dictionary \Cock"tail`\, n.
1. A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored,
and sweetened. [U. S.]
2. (Stock Breeding) A horse, not of pure breed, but having
only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his
veins. --Darwin.
3. A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward. [Slang, Eng.]
It was in the second affair that poor little Barney
showed he was a cocktail. --Thackeray.
4. (Zo["o]l.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its
habit of elevating the tail.
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