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cocktail music

cocktail music noun: lounge music.

Noun

cocktail music (uncountable)

  1. lounge music
    • […] now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 3, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN

Origin of cocktail music

Typically played in cocktail bars.

Questions about cocktail music

What does cocktail music mean?
Cocktail music means lounge music.
What part of speech is cocktail music?
Cocktail music is a noun.

Words near cocktail music in the dictionary

  1. cocktail hat
  2. cocktail hats
  3. cocktail length
  4. cocktail lounge
  5. cocktail lounges
  6. cocktail music
  7. cocktail onion
  8. cocktail onions
  9. cocktail parties
  10. cocktail party
  11. cocktail party deafness

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