cocktail party

1. 1.

   an afternoon party at which cocktails are served

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Questions about cocktail party

What does cocktail party mean?

cocktail party means "an afternoon party at which cocktails are served".

Is cocktail party a common word?

cocktail party is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.