Cocktail

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cocktail \Cock"tail`\, n.
     1. A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored,
        and sweetened. [U. S.]
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     2. (Stock Breeding) A horse, not of pure breed, but having


        only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his
        veins. --Darwin.
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     3. A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward. [Slang, Eng.]
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              It was in the second affair that poor little Barney
              showed he was a cocktail.             --Thackeray.
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     4. (Zool.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its
        habit of elevating the tail.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cocktail
       n 1: a short mixed drink
       2: an appetizer served as a first course at a meal

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "cocktail":
     Cloudcuckooland, Mickey, Mickey Finn, alto-cumulus, alto-stratus,
     anvil cloud, aperitif, banner cloud, billowy cloud, cap cloud,
     chaser, cirro-cumulus, cirro-fillum, cirro-nebula, cirro-stratus,
     cirro-velum, cirrus, cirrus cloud, cirrus haze, cirrus stripe,
     cloud, cloud band, cloud bank, cloud drift, cloud mass,
     cloud street, cloudland, cloudling, cloudscape, cottony cloud,
     cumulo-cirro-stratus, cumulo-cirrus, cumulo-nimbus, cumulo-stratus,
     cumulus, cumulus cloud, curl cloud, doch-an-dorrach, drink,
     eye-opener, fleecy cloud, fractocumulus, high fog, highball,
     knockout drops, mackerel sky, mammatocumulus, mixed drink,
     mushroom cloud, nightcap, nimbus, nimbus cloud, parting cup,
     pousse-cafe, punch, rain cloud, scud, snail cloud, squall cloud,
     stirrup cup, storm cloud, strato-cumulus, stratus, stratus cloud,
     sundowner, thundercloud, thunderhead, water carrier,
     wee doch-an-dorrach, woolpack
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Cocktail
       
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