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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cocktail \Cock"tail`\, n.
1. A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored,
and sweetened. [U. S.]
2. (Stock Breeding) A horse, not of pure breed, but having
only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his
veins. --Darwin.
3. A mean half-hearted fellow; a coward. [Slang, Eng.]
It was in the second affair that poor little Barney
showed he was a cocktail. --Thackeray.
4. (Zo["o]l.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its
habit of elevating the tail.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
cocktail
n 1: a short mixed drink
2: an appetizer served as a first course at a meal
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
Cocktail
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