From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishseafood/prawn/lobster cocktailseafood/prawn/lobster cocktailDFDsmall pieces of fish, prawns, or lobster served cold with a sauce and eaten as the first part of a meal → cocktail
Examples from the Corpus
seafood/prawn/lobster cocktail• He broke off and ordered a prawn cocktail.• The lobster cocktail was plentiful but a touch cotton-woolly in texture, and for no visible reason arrived on a plate.• Their prawn cocktails arrived, together with a carafe of hearty red wine.• The first course was avocado with prawn cocktail dressing. 