crab cocktail

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   a cocktail of cold cooked crabmeat and a sauce

   Broadercocktail

   Partscrab

Questions about crab cocktail

What does crab cocktail mean?

crab cocktail means "a cocktail of cold cooked crabmeat and a sauce".

Is crab cocktail a common word?

crab cocktail 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.