mocktailn.
/ˈmɒkteɪl/, U.S. /ˈmɑkˌteɪl/ Originally and chiefly U.S.
A blended non-alcoholic drink consisting of a mixture of fruit juices, etc.
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Shirley Temple1966
1936 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 16 May 10 (caption) In the inset is a section of the tourist class mocktail bar.
1949 Good Housek. Aug. 126/2 A cocktail—or mocktail—with fruit hors d'oeuvres... In 12 to 14 champagne or sherbert glasses, arrange fruit... Fill glasses with chilled ginger ale or champagne.
1969 Wine & Food Dec.–Jan. 106 Mocktails... Here he [sc. John Doxat] writes about non-alcoholic drinks—most of which can change from mocktail to cocktail with an appropriate spirit.
1983 Amer. Speech 58 190 Mocktails use the same fruit juices, sparkling waters (tonic or mineral), mints, drowsy syrups, and as Milton would say, dulcet creams found in alcoholic cocktails.
2004 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 28 Feb. 1 On the search for the Malaysian mocktail, he said the winning mocktail would be named ‘Bunga Raya’ and..would be promoted as the welcome drink in all hotels.
Compounds
mocktail party n. a social event at which no alcohol is served, esp. one held as part of a campaign against alcohol addiction.
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1989 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Disp. 30 Jan. 5 a/2 The third annual St. Louis Area Mocktail Party to benefit the area Students Against Drunk Driving.
1999 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) (Electronic ed.) 12 Sept. Peer advocate Katie King drew 200 people to a ‘mocktail’ party and karaoke night at her residence complex.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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