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Look up: cocktail

  1. cocktail
    [n] - a short mixed drink 2. [n] - an appetizer served as a first course at a meal
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Cocktail
    A mixture of baits all put on one hook of lugworm and squid cocktail. Peeler and mussel lug and rag etc.
    Found on http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/rock-f

  3. Cocktail
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  4. cocktail
    transaction involving more than one type of swap Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  5. Cocktail
    Cock'tail` noun 1. A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened. [ U. S.] 2. (Stock Breeding) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins. Darwin. 3. A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward. [ Slang, Eng.] « It was in the second affair that poor little Barney showed he was a < ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/102

  6. cocktail
    A mixture that includes several ingredients or drugs. ... Brompton cocktail, a cocktail of morphine and cocaine usually used for analgesia in terminal cancer patients; the formulations vary, but typically it contains 15 mg of morphine hydrochoride and 10 mg of cocaine hydrochloride per 10 ml of the cocktail. ... Origin: Brompton Chest Hospital, Londo ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  7. cocktail
    noun a short mixed drink
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. Cocktail
    A `cocktail` is a style of mixed drink. However, not all mixed drinks are cocktails. A cocktail usually contains one or more types of liquor and flavorings and one or more liqueurs, fruit juices, sauces, honey, milk, cream or spices, etc. The cocktail became popular with Prohibition in the United States. During Prohibition the art of mixing drinks became more and more important to mask the taste of bootlegged alcohol. The bartenders at a speakeas...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail

  9. Cocktail
    • (n.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail. • (n.) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins. • (n.) A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward. • (n.) A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.Cocktail: word...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  10. cocktail
    cocktail, short mixed drink originating in the United States and served as an appetizer. It generally has a basis of gin, whisky, rum, or brandy combined with vermouth or fruit juices and often flavored with bitters or grenadine. It is blended by stirring or shaking in a vessel containing cracked ic...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0


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