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

News & Articles

• Cocktail Time Travel by Domingo-Martin Barreres
  For this Forklift entry, we will be time traveling: first back to when the classic Aviation cocktail first took flight, then to the present for the launch of my NASA (New Age Space Aviation) cocktail, and finally to the future where you will have power of teleportation at your fingertips. PAST If you've been in an airport within the last few decades, you may find it hard to believe, but flying ...
  June 13, 2013 - Boston Herald
• Cocktail Garden Crazy Talk
  This is the final installment in our Year of Cocktail Gardening. To wrap things up, I give you the craziest, most unrealistic plants you will probably never actually grow in a cocktail garden. It is only because I can't grow them that I think about growing them so much.
  June 13, 2013 - The North Coast Journal
• Craft Cocktail Bars In and Around Washington, D.C.
  The craft cocktail is making a comeback, or perhaps it's finally coming to the forefront. In either case, all around the Washington, D.C., metro area, you'll find creative cocktails and libations to suit every taste, along with bars and restaurants that have created entire experiences around the art of imbibing. When you're looking for something beyond the gin and tonic your favorite ...
  June 12, 2013 - Yahoo! Contributor Network via Yahoo! News

Quotes

• John McCain in The Swamp - Tribune's Washington Bureau (blog)
  Really? I haven't detected that in the polls, I haven't detected that among the base,McCain said. "If there's a Georgetown cocktail party person who, quote, calls himself a conservative who doesn't like her, good luck. I don't dismiss him....
• Sebastian Faulks in MovieWeb
  Faulks stated, "My novel is meant to stand in the line of Fleming's own books, where the story is everything. In his house in Jamaica, Ian Fleming used to write a thousand words in the morning, then go snorkeling, have a cocktail, lunch on the...
• Barack Obama in guardian.co.uk
  He took a slap at Democratic rival Barack Obama, saying Americans don't want "somebody who has - who is, frankly, necessarily gone to Harvard or an Ivy League school. She probably hasn't been to a Georgetown cocktail party," he added.