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A cocktail is a style of mixed drink. Originally a mixture of distilled spirits, sugar, water, and bitters,^[1] the word has gradually come to mean almost any mixed drink containing alcohol.^[2] A cocktail today usually contains one or more types of liquor and flavorings and one or more liqueurs, fruit juices, sugar, honey, water, ice, soda, milk, cream, herbs, bitters, etc.^[3]

The earliest known printed use of the word "cocktail," as determined by David Wondrich in October 2005 ^[4], was from "The Farmer's Cabinet", April 28, 1803, p [2] "11. Drank a glass of cocktail — excellent for the head ... Call'd at the Doct's. found Burnham — he looked very wise — drank another glass of cocktail."

The earliest definition of this type of drink comes from the May 13, 1806, edition of the Balance and Columbian Repository, a publication in Hudson, New York, where the paper provided an answer to the question, "What is a cocktail?". It reads, "Cocktail is a stimulating liquor composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters — it is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that it fuddles the head. It is said, also to be of great use to a Democratic candidate because a person, having swallowed a glass of it, is ready to swallow anything else."

Often, the Sazerac is cited as the first cocktail, even though it didn't appear until 25 years later.

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