shrimp cocktail

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   a cocktail of cold cooked shrimp and a sauce

   Broadercocktail

Questions about shrimp cocktail

What does shrimp cocktail mean?

shrimp cocktail means "a cocktail of cold cooked shrimp and a sauce".

Is shrimp cocktail a common word?

shrimp 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.