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What does cocktail mean?
Definitions in simple English

cocktail

A cocktail is an alcoholic drink made from a spirit or several spirits mixed with fruit juice, lemonade, or cream. Her favourite cocktail was a "Pink Lady" made with gin, grenadine syrup, cream and an egg.

cocktail

a short mixed drink an appetizer served as a first course at a meal

Synonyms cocktail synonyms

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How do I use cocktail in a sentence?

Simple sentences

You can decorate the cocktail with a cherry or a pineapple.
The prawn cocktail was delicious.
Tom handed a cocktail to Mary.
Mary wore a black cocktail dress.
Do you want a cocktail?
Tom fixed himself a cocktail.
What's Tom's favorite cocktail?
I fixed myself a cocktail.

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In the same way, water acts like a cocktail mixer, allowing the atoms and molecules to come together and ultimately form the building blocks of life.
Our specialty cocktail tonight is called The Chimney.
His favourite rum cocktail.
Perhaps we could share a martini cocktail.
Well, will you have a cocktail or a dash of brandy?
I think we should have a cocktail. - Ah.
Have a cocktail?
Please, come and have a cocktail.
Have a cocktail.
I said, have a cocktail!
I guess he wants us to have a cocktail.
Yes, I'll have a cocktail.
I think we should have a cocktail.
Fixing a cocktail?
Only for a cocktail.
How was the cocktail party?
A cocktail, sir?
If you get bored, there's the cocktail bar.
You might find some interesting people at the cocktail bar.
It is unusual for the cocktail hour.
You'll write editorials about every cocktail I drank.
Will you have a cocktail?
A cocktail.
Have you ordered tea or a cocktail?

News and current affairs

I do not mean to suggest that the Justices decided the Guantanamo Bay case as they did so that they would be toasted at their international cocktail parties.
After all, adeptness at cocktail party conversation--or addiction to the cocktails--may be no less genetically determined than hair color.
Is it just a radical-chic outdoor cocktail party?
Moreover, the DOTS strategy requires that health care professionals supervise the standard treatment regimens to ensure that TB patients remain on the antibiotic cocktail for the full six months, thereby slowing the emergence of drug resistance.
In this context, it is important to understand that Xi's economic reforms are only one ingredient of a carefully crafted cocktail.
Time will tell, but a key difference between 2014 and 1979 is that today the Chinese cocktail is spiked with fear.
Cuba's dissidents will, of course, happily do without Western cocktail parties and polite conversation at receptions.
If this conversation is taking place at a cocktail party, at this point you would be well advised to ask for another drink.
For an economist, this is cause for celebration - no cocktail required.
Triumphant capitalism, idolatry of the land, and the comforts of the status quo produce a heady cocktail.

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