'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