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shrimp cocktail noun[ C or U ] USuk /ˌʃrɪmp ˈkɒk.teɪl/ us /ˌʃrɪmp ˈkɑːk.teɪl/(UKprawn cocktail) shrimp served cold with a spicy tomato sauce, usually eaten as an appetizer(= a small dish served before a main course)(常用作头盘的)鸡尾冷虾 Cappi Thompson/Moment/GettyImages Compare
prawn cocktail SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Fish & seafood abalone albacore American shad barramundi bay scallop crabmeat crappie crawdad crawfish cray littleneck clam lobster thermidor lox mahi mahi marron seafood shad shellfish shrimp skipjack tuna
Examples of shrimp cocktail shrimp cocktail A smoked salmon sampler, a small shrimpcocktail, and, just because it smells too good to pass up, a tomato/rosemary focaccia. From Plain Dealer They dined on rib-eye steaks, tilapia and shrimpcocktail in five meals during the stay. From Dallas Morning News This summer, don't interject yourself in conversations about shrimpcocktail with a comment about your fetus. From Huffington Post These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |