Thesaurus: cocktail

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1. n. A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.
2. n. A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins.
3. n. A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.
4. n. A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
5. n. a short mixed drink
6. n. an appetizer served as a first course at a meal
7. 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 cocktail. Thackeray. 4. (Zoöl.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
8. A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or onesixteenth impure blood in his veins. Darwin.
9. n:100 n. a short mixed drink n. an appetizer served as a first course at a meal