Cocktail /(?)/

Cock·tail

Cocktail

n.
  1. A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened. [U. S.]
  2. A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins. (Stock Breeding)
  3. A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward. [Slang, Eng.]
    It was in the second affair that poor little Barney showed he was a cocktail.
  4. A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail. (Zool.)