COCKTAIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cocktail mean? 

• COCKTAIL (noun)
  The noun COCKTAIL has 2 senses:

1. a short mixed drink

2. an appetizer served as a first course at a meal

  Familiarity information: COCKTAIL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COCKTAIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A short mixed drink

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("cocktail" is a kind of...):

mixed drink (made of two or more ingredients)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cocktail"):

White Russian (a cocktail made with vodka, coffee liqueur, and milk or cream)

planter's punch (a cocktail made of rum and lime or lemon juice with sugar and sometimes bitters)

stinger (a cocktail made of made of creme de menthe and brandy)

sour (a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar)

sidecar (a cocktail made of orange liqueur with lemon juice and brandy)

screwdriver (a cocktail made with vodka and orange juice)

Sazerac (a cocktail made with bourbon with bitters and Pernod and sugar served with lemon peel)

pink lady (a cocktail made of gin and brandy with lemon juice and grenadine shaken with an egg white and ice)

old fashioned (a cocktail made of whiskey and bitters and sugar with fruit slices)

gin and it (a cocktail made of gin and sweet vermouth)

martini (a cocktail made of gin (or vodka) with dry vermouth)

margarita (a cocktail made of tequila and triple sec with lime and lemon juice)

manhattan (a cocktail made with whiskey and sweet vermouth with a dash of bitters)

Harvey Wallbanger (a cocktail made of vodka or gin and orange juice and Galliano)

grasshopper (a cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao))

gimlet (a cocktail made of gin or vodka and lime juice)

daiquiri; rum cocktail (a cocktail made with rum and lime or lemon juice)

bullshot (a cocktail made with vodka and beef bouillon or consomme)

Bloody Mary (a cocktail made with vodka and spicy tomato juice)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An appetizer served as a first course at a meal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("cocktail" is a kind of...):

appetiser; appetizer; starter (food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cocktail"):

crab cocktail (a cocktail of cold cooked crabmeat and a sauce)

shrimp cocktail (a cocktail of cold cooked shrimp and a sauce)

fruit cocktail (a mixture of sliced or diced fruits)

 Context examples 

The researchers found that tumors responded poorly to the immunotherapy in both germ-free mice and mice that received the antibiotic cocktail.

(Gut microbes may affect cancer treatment, NIH)

“‘Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. 6d., glass sherry, 8d.’ I see nothing in that.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After tail amputation, ROCs migrate from the body to the wound and secrete a cocktail of growth factors that coordinate the response of tissue precursor cells.

(Scientists find new type of cell that helps tadpoles’ tails regenerate, University of Cambridge)

During the 21-day study, all four monkeys who received the antibody cocktail showed no virus replication.

(Monoclonal antibodies against Zika show promise in monkey study, National Institutes of Health)

Researchers studying a hospital emergency room report a cocktail of simple drug store pain relievers work just as well or sometimes better than prescribed opioids.

(Study: Common Painkillers as Effective as Opioids in Hospital Emergency Room, VOA)

The researchers gave the mice an antibiotic cocktail designed to wipe out a broad spectrum of bacteria in the gut and by rearing them in a germ-free environment.

(In uveitis, bacteria in gut may instruct immune cells to attack the eye, NIH)

The researchers placed mice on a broad-spectrum antibiotic cocktail.

(Researchers identify immune culprits linked to inflammation and bone loss in gum disease, National Institutes of Health)

One experimental drug cocktail called ZMapp is now being evaluated in human trials.

(Experimental Ebola antibody protects monkeys, NIH)

Using a mouse model of alcohol-associated liver disease, mice were transplanted with stool from cytolysin-positive alcoholic hepatitis patients and treated with a cocktail of bacteriophages targeting the cytolytic E. faecalis strains.

(Bacteriophage therapy may ease severity of alcoholic hepatitis, National Institutes of Health)

The medicine, known as Efavirenz, offered to adults in pill form as part of the cocktail therapy against AIDS, was enhanced through nanotechnology.

(New HIV medicine under development for children in Brazil, Agência Brasil/EBC)