Definition of cocktail

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