Definizione monolingua

cocktail

cocktail (plural cocktails)

1. A mixed alcoholic beverage.

   They visited a pub noted for the wide range of cocktails they serve.

   • 1806, 13 May 1806 edition of Balance and Columbian Repository, published by Hudson, New York, (first appearance in print):

     Cocktail is a stimulating liquor composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters — it is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that it fuddles the head.

2. A mixture of other substances.

   ""Scientists found a cocktail of pollutants in the river downstream of the chemical factory.""

cocktail (comparative more cocktail, superlative most cocktail)

1. festive, lively

   ""now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music"" - The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Definizione dizionario cocktail

	cocktail
	Style of mixed drink, usually containing two or more types of liquor and flavorings.

Altri significati:

alcoholic beverage

A mixed alcoholic beverage containing several types of liquor

festive, lively

A mixture of other substances.