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3 definitions found 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 {GMD Toolbox for Compiler Construction}
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