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SHRIMP COCKTAIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shrimp cocktail mean? 

SHRIMP COCKTAIL (noun)
  The noun SHRIMP COCKTAIL has 1 sense:

1. a cocktail of cold cooked shrimp and a sauceplay

  Familiarity information: SHRIMP COCKTAIL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SHRIMP COCKTAIL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A cocktail of cold cooked shrimp and a sauce

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("shrimp cocktail" is a kind of...):

cocktail (an appetizer served as a first course at a meal)

Meronyms (substance of "shrimp cocktail"):

prawn; shrimp (any of various edible decapod crustaceans)


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