2.seafood/prawn/lobster cocktailDFDsmall pieces of fish, prawns, or lobsterservedcold with a sauce and eaten as the first part of a meal 〔西餐作为第一道菜的〕凉拌海鲜/对虾/龙虾
Examples from the Corpus
seafood/prawn/lobster cocktail• He broke off and ordered a prawn cocktail.• The lobster cocktail was plentiful but a touch cotton-woolly in texture, and for no visible reason arrived on a plate.• Their prawn cocktails arrived, together with a carafe of heartyredwine.• The first course was avocado with prawn cocktaildressing.
cocktail• Years ago, rooms would have a cocktailtable that matched the end table and the sofa table.• It will test whether using a cocktail of five or more drugs is an improvement on three.• There's this one: a woman sitting in a bar, wearing a cocktailoutfit.• He died after taking a lethalcocktail of alcohol and tranquilizers.• Johnnie cruised away with another tray of cocktails.• I find that traditionalcocktail foods are always very popular and Devils or Angels on Horseback are a guaranteedsuccess.• Roll up carefully from head to tail and secure with one or two cocktailsticks. 3.
lethal cocktail• It probably illustrates it's a lethal cocktail of lorries and cars.• After all, each state comprised an often lethal cocktail of peoples.• In a flourish of biochemical altruism, they manufacturedeadlymolecules and then turn this lethal cocktail upon themselves.
Origincocktail
(1800-1900) Probably from cocktail“horse with a tail cut short so that it looks like a male chicken's, horse of mixed breed (with such a tail), mixture”((1800-1900))