cocktails
- 1Plural of cocktail.
The menu listed a dozen cocktails, from classic martinis to tropical blends.
Guests sipped cocktails on the terrace as the sun went down.
Note
A regular plural formed with -s, and it serves every noun meaning of cocktail, not the drinks alone. Mixtures of other substances take it, and so do older uses: part-bred horses with only an eighth or a sixteenth of impure blood, mean-spirited fellows in dated British slang, and the rove beetles named for raising their tails. The obsolete adjective for showy bad manners never takes the ending, because English adjectives do not pluralize.
cocktails is a form of cocktail
cocktail, noun: An alcoholic drink made by combining spirits with juices, flavorings, or other beverages. Full entry
- Forms
- cocktailcocktails plural
- Spelling
- cocktail → cocktails: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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