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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cocktail \Cock"tail'\, noun
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) 2.0 [wn]:
cocktail
noun
1: a short mixed drink
2: an appetizer served as a first course at a meal
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "cocktail": Cloudcuckooland, Mickey, Mickey Finn, alto-cumulus, alto-stratus, anvil cloud, aperitif, banner cloud, billowy cloud, cap cloud, chaser, cirro-cumulus, cirro-fillum, cirro-nebula, cirro-stratus, cirro-velum, cirrus, cirrus cloud, cirrus haze, cirrus stripe, cloud, cloud band, cloud bank, cloud drift, cloud mass, cloud street, cloudland, cloudling, cloudscape, cottony cloud, cumulo-cirro-stratus, cumulo-cirrus, cumulo-nimbus, cumulo-stratus, cumulus, cumulus cloud, curl cloud, doch-an-dorrach, drink, eye-opener, fleecy cloud, fractocumulus, high fog, highball, knockout drops, mackerel sky, mammatocumulus, mixed drink, mushroom cloud, nightcap, nimbus, nimbus cloud, parting cup, pousse-cafe, punch, rain cloud, scud, snail cloud, squall cloud, stirrup cup, storm cloud, strato-cumulus, stratus, stratus cloud, sundowner, thundercloud, thunderhead, water carrier, wee doch-an-dorrach, woolpack
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Cocktail {GMD Toolbox for Compiler Construction}
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