'Cocktail' definitions:
Definition of 'cocktail'
(from WordNet)
noun
A short mixed drink
noun
An appetizer served as a first course at a meal
Definition of 'Cocktail'
From: GCIDE
- Cocktail \Cock"tail`\, n.
- 1. A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Stock Breeding) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins. --Darwin. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward. [Slang, Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- It was in the second affair that poor little Barney showed he was a cocktail. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Zool.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cocktail'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Cloudcuckooland,
- 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,
- Mickey,
- Mickey Finn,
- 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