Wiktionary
n. a mixture of chopped fruit served as an appetizer, often chilled; tends to be less sweet than a fruit salad
WordNet
n. a mixture of sliced or diced fruits
Usage examples of "fruit cocktail".
Maus abhorred tea bags, pressure cookers, canned fruit cocktail, bottled mayonnaise, instant coffee, iceberg lettuce, monosodium glutamate, eggs poached in geometric shapes, New England boiled dinners, and anything resembling a smorgasbord, salad bar, or all-you-can-eat buffet.
Roger had worked on his guitars for several years, and he knew that Tony had probably committed himself to living on beans and fruit cocktail for several weeks in order to buy the Les Paul.
He and his mom had had fruit cocktail while they watched a show she liked, but he still felt hungry, for something good.
On the other hand, I don't want her to be so scared she has to go to the door with a jumbo-sized can of fruit cocktail in her hand every time someone knocks.
Accepting a fruit cocktail from a discreetly humaniform waitron, he strolls toward a row of triangular windows that gaze out across the arena toward the American Pavilion and the World Village.
The Jell-0 was green with a smattering of fruit cocktail submerged in its glowing depths.
I was trying to decide between Jell-O and fruit cocktail from the cafeteria counter.
On his first foray, he returned carrying two cardboard boxes, one of fruit cocktail and the other of pineapple.
This was the menu: iced tea with Sweet 'N Low already mixed in, a green Jell-O square with fruit cocktail and an internal ribbon of Miracle Whip, iceberg lettuce with bottled dressing the color of a sunset.
First the goddam puddy-tat detective, and now a neighborhood where fruit cocktail is probably considered a delicacy.
I mean, five hundred years from now, those little cups that held the fruit cocktail will still be around.
I bet she left him six-packs of canned fruit cocktail for dessert.
Ellen kept talking about Bing cherries and Hawaiian fruit cocktail.
We sat down in the shade of a half-track, eating corned beef and carrots and fruit cocktail.
Trish chose a dubiously fresh salad, a helping of fruit cocktail, and a carton of skim milk.