Wiktionary
n. A sauce served with oysters and other seafood, typically ketchup mixed with horseradish or mayonnaise.
WordNet
n. usually catsup with horseradish and lemon juice [syn: seafood sauce]
Wikipedia
Cocktail sauce, originally known as Marie Rose sauce, is one of several types of cold or room temperature sauces often served as part of the dish(es) referred to as seafood cocktail or as a condiment with other seafoods. The sauce, and the dish for which it is named, were invented by British cook Fanny Cradock.
Usage examples of "cocktail sauce".
He tried not to notice the warmth of her skin and the exotic mixture of gardenias and cocktail sauce that tantalized his senses.
They ran out of cocktail sauce before long, but it didn't really matter.
He got out dishes and opened wine as I arranged chilled shrimp on plates and spooned Bev's Kicked By A Horse Cocktail Sauce into a bowl.
He gave the cocktail sauce a final, satisfied stir with a spoon, then pushed the bowl to the center of the table.
Lucy can't help but think of Rocco's estranged father, Pete Marino, as she eyes a gnawed T-bone, the shredded skin of a baked potato, a plate with one pat of butter left (melted), an empty bread basket and a glass goblet filled with wilted lettuce, cocktail sauce, wedges of lemon and shrimp tails.
The tray held two plates of hors d'ouevres, one with bacon-wrapped chicken livers, the other with boiled shrimp and a bowl of cocktail sauce.
Asking for cocktail sauce for your oysters will make the chef cry, then faint.
Stone turned to find that while he had been talking to Carter, the shrimp-cocktail sauce had lost contact with his spoon.
I hadn't eaten lunch, so I ordered a beer and a plate of fresh shrimp, which came with cocktail sauce, oyster crackers, and lemon wedges.