cocktail is a mixed drink containing two or more ingredients. Originally a mixture of distilled spirits (Distilled beverage), sugar, water, and bitters, the word has gradually come to mean almost any mixed drink containing alcohol (alcoholic beverage).

A cocktail today usually contains one or more types of liquor (Distilled beverage) and one or more mixers, such as bitters, fruit juice, fruit, soda (Carbonated water), ice, sugar, honey, milk, cream, or herbs.