cocktail

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  1. noun Any of various mixed alcoholic drinks consisting usually of brandy, whiskey, vodka, or gin combined with fruit juices or other liquors and often served chilled.
  2. noun Medicine A mixture of drugs, usually in solution, for the diagnosis or treatment of a condition.
  3. noun Medicine A treatment regimen that includes a combination of several drugs, so that their combined effect is more potent than that of any of the drugs used individually.
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  • Chicken nuggets, Tater Tots, chocolate milk with high fructose, canned fruit cocktail -- a reimbursable meal. —  Ann Cooper talks school lunches
  • For my daughter - who's pretty busy, not hyperactive - the worry is what's known as the cocktail effect: these colourings combined with commonly used benzoate preservatives (which go under E numbers 210 to 219) may exacerbate other allergic conditions as well as hyperactivity. —  Signs of the Times
  • Added to this cocktail was the now monthly warning from banking analyst Meredith Whitney that US banks are going to have to raise a lot more capital in 2009 (which will be easier said than done). —  Media Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
  • It remains to be seen how popular the menu and the cocktail will be in these times of financial fatalism, but, as Henry Ford said, "Quality means doing it right when no one is looking." —  The Prague Post
  • At the Astral Media pre-gala cocktail, the talk concerned how this year's indie offerings would fare in the face of a downturn for specialty distributors as the festival's unofficial market gets under way Friday. —  Top Stories - Google News
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. from cock (in part with allusion to cock, v.) + tail. The origin of the term in the 3d and 4th senses is not clear.
 

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/ˈkɑkteɪl/
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