COCKTAILED

Verb

cocktailed

simple past tense and past participle of cocktail

Source: Wiktionary


COCKTAIL

Cock"tail`, n.

1. A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened. [U. S.]

2. (Stock Breeding)

Definition: 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. (Zoöl.)

Definition: A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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