cocktail
/ˈkɒkteɪl/ · noun
Meaning
- A mixed alcoholic beverage.
- A mixture of other substances or things.
- A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in its veins.
- A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.
- A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
- To adulterate (fuel, etc.) by mixing in other substances.
- To treat (a person) to cocktails.
- Ostentatiously lacking in manners.
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