- A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced,
flavored, and sweetened. - A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or
one sixteenth impure blood in his veins. - A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward. - A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of
elevating the tail.
Cocktail party phenomenon Cocktail party phenomenon is the term used by some psychologists to describe our perceptual ability to deal with several messages at once but attend to only one of them.
Definition
[ n.]