What is "shrimp cocktail"

Usage examples of "shrimp cocktail".

AFTER LUNCHEON -the traditional shrimp cocktail, 'native' snapper with a minute paper cup of tartare sauce, roast prime ribs of beef au jus, and pineapple surprise- it was time for the siesta before meeting Goldfinger at three o'clock for the afternoon session.

The third night I forgot a customer's shrimp cocktail and Henry told Maurice to send the man a bottle of complimentary champagne.

Whenever I got hungry enough I'd eat some crackers or a shrimp cocktail.

Whenever I got hungry enough I'd eat some cracker or a shrimp cocktail.

Wesley and I ate shrimp cocktail as night drew closer and cast its shadow over the east.

I will meet an old girlfriend of mine, a classified ad supervisor for the Philadelphia Inquirer named Lauren Auster, at the bar, and we will have drinks and we will tell stories, some old and some new, and we will laugh, and after a time we will move to a table and we will order shrimp cocktail and Caesar salad and the scrod, with mine blackened and hers grilled in light butter and dill, and at 7:15 p.

Dad ordered this ridiculous room-service meal of shrimp cocktail and fried chicken because I liked them both, and caviar, which I hadn't yet acquired a taste for.

Seth, her husband, loved food better than life, and was fully engaged with shrimp cocktail, hearts of lettuce with famous blue cheese dressing, bread, butter, and a porterhouse for two that he typically did not share.

Especially one holding me with one hand and a shrimp cocktail glass with the other.