Cocktail vs. Highball — 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 highball is a mixed alcoholic drink composed of an alcoholic base spirit and a larger proportion of a non-alcoholic mixer, often a carbonated beverage. Examples include the Seven and Seven, Scotch and soda, gin and tonic, Screwdriver, and rum and Coke.

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

A drink consisting of a spirit, especially whisky, and a mixer such as soda, served with ice in a tall glass.

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

A railway signal to proceed.

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.

Travel fast

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

A cocktail served in a tall glass and consisting of liquor, such as whiskey, mixed with water or a carbonated beverage.

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

A railroad signal indicating full speed ahead.

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.

A high-speed train.

Of or relating to cocktails

To move ahead at full speed.

A mixed alcoholic beverage.

A cocktail made from a spirit plus soda water etc.

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

An all clear or full speed ahead signal.

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

(climbing) A very high bouldering problem, often with a hard landing.

A mean, half-hearted fellow.

To make an estimate which tends toward exaggeration.

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

To move quickly; to hightail.

(obsolete) Ostentatiously lacking in manners.

An alcoholic beverage having a liquor such as whiskey mixed with water or a carbonated beverage, and usually served with ice in a tall glass.

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

A railroad track signal permitting the engineer to proceed at full speed.

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

A mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass

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