cocktailnoun
uk/ˈkɒk.teɪl/us/ˈkɑːk.teɪl/cocktail noun (DRINK)
[ C ] a drink, usually an alcoholic one, made by mixing two or more drinks together:
We were all in the bar sipping cocktails.
a champagne cocktail
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Cocktails
- Bloody Mary
- Buck's Fizz
- caipirinha
- cup
- daiquiri
- frappé
- highball
- kir
- manhattan
- margarita
- martini
- mint julep
- mojito
- Pimm's
- punch
- sangria
- shaker
- sour
- swizzle stick
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cocktail noun (MIXTURE)
[ C usually singular ] a mixture of different things, often an unexpected, dangerous, or exciting one:
The inquest heard that the guitarist died from a cocktail of drink and drugs.
Cars produce a lethal cocktail of gasses.
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Mixing and mixtures
- be neither one thing nor the other idiom
- beat
- blend
- blend in/blend into sth
- brew
- churn
- combination
- cross-fertilization
- decoction
- emulsion
- impure
- intermingle
- meld
- mingle
- mixture
- neither
- preparation
- roll
- rolled into one idiom
- substance
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cocktail noun (DISH)
[ C or U ] a cold dish, often eaten at the start of a meal, consisting of small pieces of food:
fruit cocktail
a prawn/seafood cocktail
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Meals & parts of meals
- accompaniment
- afternoon tea
- afters
- amuse-bouche
- antipasto
- dinner party
- dinner time
- elevenses
- English breakfast
- feast
- picnic
- plate meal
- ploughman's lunch
- postprandial
- pot luck
- smorgasbord
- teatime
- tiffin
- TV dinner
- working lunch/breakfast
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