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A salad dish made from cooked, pealed, chilled prawns with a Marie Rose sauce, served on lettuce with lemon.Syn: shrimp cocktail
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Prawn cocktail — or shrimp cocktail is a seafood dish, which is usually served as a starter. It consists of cooked, peeled, chilled shrimp or prawns, leaf salad and cocktail sauce sometimes known as sauce Marie Rose or Thousand Island Dressing which is… … Wikipedia
prawn cocktail — noun A dish of prawns with salad, mayonnaise, etc, served as an appetizer or starter • • • Main Entry: ↑prawn * * * prawn cocktail UK US noun [countable] [singular prawn cocktail plural … Useful english dictionary
prawn cocktail — prawn cocktails N VAR A prawn cocktail is a dish that consists of prawns, salad, and a sauce. It is usually eaten at the beginning of a meal. [BRIT] (in AM, use shrimp cocktail) … English dictionary
prawn cocktail — noun count BRITISH a SHRIMP COCKTAIL … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
prawn cocktail — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms prawn cocktail : singular prawn cocktail plural prawn cocktails British cooked prawns that are served cold with a light sauce, often before the main dish of a meal … English dictionary
prawn cocktail — noun Prawn cocktail is used before these nouns: ↑crisp … Collocations dictionary
Prawn Cocktail Offensive — The Prawn Cocktail Offensive was the scornful name given to the British Labour Party s successful attempt (while in opposition in the 1990s) to win trust and backing from the United Kingdom s financial sector. The Prawn Cocktail Offensive was… … Wikipedia
prawn cocktail — /ˌprɔn ˈkɒkteɪl/ (say .prawn koktayl) noun a cold entree of cooked prawns, served on a lettuce leaf with a spiced mayonnaise. Compare seafood cocktail …
prawn cocktail offensive — noun a strategy of the Labour Party in winning over important people in the world of finance … Wiktionary
Cocktail sauce — is one of several types of cold or room temperature sauces often served as part of the dish(es) referred to as seafood cocktail or as a condiment with other seafoods. In America it generally consists of ketchup mixed with prepared horseradish.… … Wikipedia
