Cocktail vs. Margarita — What's the Difference?

A cocktail is an alcoholic mixed drink. Most commonly, cocktails are either a combination of spirits, or one or more spirits mixed with other ingredients such as fruit juice, flavored syrup, or cream.

A margarita is a cocktail consisting of tequila, orange liqueur, and lime juice often served with salt on the rim of the glass. The drink is served shaken with ice (on the rocks), blended with ice (frozen margarita), or without ice (straight up).

An alcoholic drink consisting of a spirit or spirits mixed with other ingredients, such as fruit juice or cream

An island in the Caribbean Sea, off the coast of Venezuela. Visited by Columbus in 1498, it was used as a base by Simón Bolívar in 1816 in the struggle for independence from Spanish rule.

A dish consisting of small pieces of food, typically served cold as a starter

Variant spelling of margherita

Any of various mixed alcoholic drinks consisting usually of brandy, whiskey, vodka, or gin combined with fruit juices or other liquors and often served chilled.

A cocktail made with tequila, an orange-flavored liqueur, and lemon or lime juice, often served with salt encrusted on the rim of the glass.

An appetizer made by combining pieces of food, such as fruit or seafood

A cocktail made with tequila, an orange-flavoured liqueur, and lemon or lime juice, often served with salt encrusted on the rim of the glass.

A mixture of drugs, usually in solution, administered together or sequentially.

A cocktail made of tequila and triple sec with lime and lemon juice

A medical regimen that includes a combination of several drugs, so that their combined effect is more potent than that of any of the drugs used individually.

Of or relating to cocktails

A mixed alcoholic beverage.

(by extension) A mixture of other substances or things.

A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in its veins.

A mean, half-hearted fellow.

A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

(obsolete) Ostentatiously lacking in manners.

(transitive) To adulterate (fuel, etc.) by mixing in other substances.

(transitive) To treat (a person) to cocktails.

A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.

A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins.

A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.

A species of rove beetle; - so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

A short mixed drink

An appetizer served as a first course at a meal