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cocktail stick
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cocktail stick
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Etching - dip a cocktail stick in lemon juice or vinegar and scratch away the colour when the dyed egg is cold.
▪ For the dragonflies, mould small curved lengths and mark on segments with a cocktail stick.
▪ Mark lines of bandages on to the mummy's limbs and head with a pointed cocktail stick.
▪ Prop up with a cocktail stick from behind if necessary.
▪ Roll one rasher around each prune and secure with a cocktail stick. 3.
▪ Roll the fillets up and secure with a cocktail stick.
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cocktail stick

n. A short thin wooden stick with pointy ends, designed to hold decorations or fruit in a cocktail, or small portions of food generally.

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Cocktail stick

A cocktail stick is a short cylindrical stick, made of wood, that has a somewhat sharp point on both ends. It is usually used as a skewer for holding decorations (such as cherries) in cocktails and also for serving food such as amuse-bouches at cocktail parties.

Usage examples of "cocktail stick".

I found a three-pack of condoms in my wallet, two joint-ends in my turn up, and a cocktail stick in my rug.

Chicken and steamed rice and some dishes that I cant even look at silkworms, blackened in the pan, full of their white mushy meat and food that I love, like little sausages that look as though they should be on the end of a cocktail stick.

Evelyn squeezed past Hatcher to hand Corrigan a sausage on a cocktail stick, then snuggled close while he slipped an arm around her.

He vanished, leaving only a cocktail stick and a short paper streamer behind.

In Biers, unless you weren't choosy, it paid to order a drink that was transparent because Igor also had undirected ideas about what you could stick on the end of a cocktail stick.