A mixed alcoholic beverage. / (by extension) A mixture of other substances or things. / A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in its veins.

(obsolete) Ostentatiously lacking in manners.

(transitive) To adulterate (fuel, etc.) by mixing in other substances. / (transitive) To treat (a person) to cocktails.

plural of cocktail

A cocktail party

Work as a cocktail waitress.

simple past tense and past participle of cocktail

plural of cocktailer

A crude incendiary bomb made from a glass bottle, either filled with a flammable liquid such as petroleum and supplied with a rag for a fuse that is lit just before being hurled, or filled with such a mix of flammable liquids that it ignites itself when it is smashed and its contents are exposed to air.

a mixture of chopped fruit served as an appetizer, often chilled; tends to be less sweet than a fruit salad