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cocktail
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cocktail \Cock"tail`\, n.
A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened. [U. S.]
(Stock Breeding) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins.
--Darwin.-
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. (Zo["o]l.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
first attested 1806; H.L. Mencken lists seven versions of its origin, perhaps the most durable traces it to French coquetier "egg-cup" (15c.; in English cocktay). In New Orleans, c.1795, Antoine Amédée Peychaud, an apothecary (and inventor of Peychaud bitters) held Masonic social gatherings at his pharmacy, where he mixed brandy toddies with his own bitters and served them in an egg-cup. On this theory, the drink took the name of the cup. Used from 1920s of any mix of substances (fruit, Molotov). Cocktail party first attested 1928.
Wiktionary
a. festive; lively. n. 1 A mixed alcoholic beverage. 2 A mixture of other substances. 3 A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in its veins. 4 (context UK slang dated English) A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward. 5 A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevate the tail.
WordNet
n. a short mixed drink
an appetizer served as a first course at a meal
Wikipedia
When used to refer to any generic alcoholic mixed drink, cocktail may mean any beverage that contains three or more ingredients if at least one of those ingredients is alcohol.
Cocktail is a 1988 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Heywood Gould, whose screenplay was based on his book of the same name. The film tells the story of a young New York City business student, Brian Flanagan, who takes up bartending in order to make ends meet.
The film stars Tom Cruise as Brian Flanagan, Bryan Brown as Doug Coughlin, and Elisabeth Shue as Jordan Mooney. Released by Touchstone Pictures, the film features an original music score composed by J. Peter Robinson.
A cocktail is a mixed drink containing alcohol.
Cocktail may also refer to:
- Fruit cocktail, a mixture of various fruits, often canned
- Shrimp cocktail, also known as a prawn cocktail, a type of seafood cocktail.
- Cocktail dress, a shorter length lady's gown
- Molotov cocktail, a crude incendiary weapon
- A mixture of drugs, especially a mixture of Antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV sometimes called a "triple cocktail"
- A style of arcade cabinet where the screen lies horizontal and players generally sit opposite each other to play
- In scuba diving with a rebreather, slang for caustic liquid getting in circuit if water gets at its absorbent
- Cocktail (code name), the code name of Apple's iTunes LP music format
- Cocktail (magazine), a Swedish and Norwegian erotic magazine
Cocktail is the debut album from the Mexican electropop band Belanova. The album was recorded in Mexico City in 2002 and finally released on 14 February 2003 without promotion. The album spent its first months on the shelves, but then radio picked up the first single, "Tus Ojos." By the summer of 2003, the album finally entered album charts reaching its peak position of number-five and number-three on the Mexican Latin Albums Chart. The band embarked on a 100-concert tour across the Mexican territory and the album finally reached Gold (50,000 Copies sold) status after three official singles. The Mexican edition of Rolling Stone named the album, Cocktail, one of the best five albums of 2003. In 2005 the album was re-issued on reduced priced collections by Universal Music Mexico, because of this the sales of the album increased considerably, re-entering on the Mexican Top 100 Albums at seventy-nine and peaking at fifty-four after a few weeks. The album has been re-issued on Universal Music's slide-pack collections, making it the first time that the album has been available outside of Mexico.
Cocktail is a 2006 Hong Kong film produced and directed by Herman Yau and Long Ching.
Cocktail is a 2010 Malayalam thriller film edited and directed by Arun Kumar Aravind. The film stars Jayasurya, Anoop Menon, Samvrutha Sunil, Fahadh Faasil, Innocent, and Mamukkoya. It is co-written by Anoop Menon and is a credited remake of the Canadian film Butterfly on a Wheel. It was the directorial debut of film editor Arun Kumar.
Cocktail is a 2012 Indian romantic comedy-drama film directed by Homi Adajania under the banner of Illuminati Films. The film stars Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone and newcomer Diana Penty in lead roles, with Dimple Kapadia and Boman Irani appearing in supporting roles. Randeep Hooda has a special appearance. Adajania has previously worked with Khan, Kapadia, and Irani in his directorial debut Being Cyrus. Cocktail released worldwide on 13 July 2012 and received a positive to mixed reception from critics, with high praise to Deepika Padukone's performance and was declared as the best performance of her career. The film also emerged as a major commercial success in both India and abroad. After its three-week run, Box Office India declared the movie a hit in India and abroad.
Usage examples of "cocktail".
Martian debacle, built and hurled at the nearest of the habitable worlds indicated on the Martian astrogation charts with the bravado of a Molotov cocktail hurled at a tank.
Our lab found a cocktail of droperidol and gamma hydroxy butyrate in the dregs of his tea.
Her father ran off, and the mother is the cocktail waitress at the Candlepin Castle.
New Orleans, or eaten himself ill, as we nearly did ourselves, on a generous mixture of clam-chowder, terrapin, soft-shelled crabs, Jersey peaches, canvas-backed ducks, Catawba wine, winter cherries, brandy cocktails, strawberry-shortcake, ice-creams, corn-dodger, and a judicious brew commonly known as a Colorado corpse-reviver.
North Coast Chardonnay arrived with the pseudoshrimp cocktails, and Caroline sipped the wine and felt herself relax with a nearly audible groan of pleasure.
This looks like someone busted a window and chucked in a Molotov cocktail.
Youman explained that the standard treatment protocol for tes-ticular cancer was called BEP, a cocktail of three different drugs, bleomycin, etoposide, and cisplatin, and they were so toxic that the nurses wore radioactive protection when handling them.
The Olympians, virtually stripped to the skin of their fish-battered garments, had distributed themselves clubbily about the lounge and were thirstily watching Mr Betts as he diligently mixed cocktails.
INII, Cycloserine, and Ethioniamide, but he could very well be taking some new cocktail.
In lieu of Squeak food, they were supping on the least putrid human groceries available: dandelion salad with Angostura bitters, grilled black pudding, squid fritters, kim chee, Icelandic hrokkbraud and Marmite, Bananas Foster, and a big pitcher of scorpion cocktails made with Demerara rum.
Straussman set the tray down on the gryphon table and served Besthoff his cocktail, which, Doodlebug guessed from its scent, was a mixture of sherry and blood.
Besthoff took a sip of his cocktail and eyed Doodlebug evenly over the rim of the expansive goblet.
The best solution would be to flood the soil and use a cocktail of halophyte sulphur-reducing bacteria to dissolve the iron and sulphur before draining out the water.
The Hollywoodians were beached whales in Washington, cut off from cocktails and contracts and deals and dollars.
On those days she worked out of the Wilmington office in between coffee klatches and civic meetings, cocktail receptions and Party assemblies.