cocktails

noun

1. A mixed alcoholic beverage.

2. A mixture of other substances or things.

   Scientists found a cocktail of pollutants in the river downstream from the chemical factory.

3. A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in its veins.

4. A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.

5. A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevating the tail.