Meanings
nouncocktail music (uncountable)
- uncountablelounge 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
Typically played in cocktail bars.
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cocktail music. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cocktail%20music
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“cocktail music.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cocktail%20music. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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