cock·tail /ˈkɑkˌtel/
 雞尾酒,開味菜(a.)雞尾酒的
 cock·tail /ˈkɑkˌtel/ 名詞
 雞尾酒
 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.
 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. Zool. A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
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 cocktail
      n 1: a short mixed drink
      2: an appetizer served as a first course at a meal