English-Dutch translations for cocktail

• cocktail
  We hebben het in dit verband over gearomatiseerde wijnen of dranken op basis van wijn en over cocktails van wijnbouwprodukten. We are discussing aromatized wines, wine-based drinks and wine-product cocktails.
  Dat was inderdaad een cocktail op donderdagmiddag, met alle problemen van dien. But it was indeed a cocktail party on Thursday afternoon, with all the attendant difficulties.
  Beide vormen ze een hachelijke cocktail van oude sovjetbouw en Amerikaanse techniek. Together, they form an unpleasant cocktail of old Soviet design and American engineering.
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Definition of cocktail

• A mixed alcoholic beverage
• A mixture of other substances or things
• A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in its veins
• A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward
• A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevating the tail
• Ostentatiously lacking in manners
• To adulterate by mixing in other substances

Examples

• They visited a pub noted for the wide range of cocktails they serve.
• Scientists found a cocktail of pollutants in the river downstream from the chemical factory.
• a cocktail of illegal drugs
• He dined and cocktailed her at the most exclusive bars and restaurants.

Related words

• cocktail-snack
• cocktail party
• cocktail stick
• cocktail dress
• cocktail hat
• cocktail sauce
• cocktail bar
• cocktail onion
• cocktail table