cocktail

[Cock·tail`]

A cocktail is an alcoholic mixed drink that’s usually served in a short glass. If you have too many cocktails, you may not find your way home.

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A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.

Noun
an appetizer served as a first course at a meal

Noun
a short mixed drink


n.
A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.

n.
A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins.

n.
A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.

n.
A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.


Cocktail

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.
4. (Zo'94l.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.

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Usage Examples

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.

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Other Usage Examples

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

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