01 n. A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.
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A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.[U. S.]
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A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins.(Stock Breeding)
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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.
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A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.(Zool.)