Cocktail
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"I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar."--"Don't You Want Me" (1981) by The Human League |
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- An alcoholic beverage containing one or more types of liquor
- 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.
- A mixture of other substances.
- "Scientists found a cocktail of pollutants in the river downstream of the chemical factory."
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