cocktail

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• 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.
• noun An appetizer made by combining pieces of food, such as fruit or seafood.
• noun A mixture of drugs, usually in solution, for the diagnosis or treatment of a condition.
• noun 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.
• adjective Of or relating to cocktails.
• adjective Suitable for wear on semiformal occasions.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Cocktail beer.
• noun A bird of the genus Alectrurus.
• noun A name of a European insect, Ocypus or Goërius olens, one of the rove-beetles or Staphylinidæ. Also called devil's coach-horse (which see, under devil).
• noun A horse which is not thoroughbred, but has some impure blood, generally one fourth or less, but sometimes one half; hence, an underbred person.
• noun An American drink, strong, stimulating, and cold, made of spirits, bitters, and a little sugar, with various aromatic and stimulating additions.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun United States A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.
• noun (Stock Breeding) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins.
• noun Slang, Eng. A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.
• noun (Zoöl.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A mixed alcoholic beverage.
• noun A mixture of other substances.
• noun A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in its veins.
• noun UK, slang, dated A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.
• noun A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
• adjective festive, lively

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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