cocktail sip
n.— «Indeed, he made no mention of it at all. Thompson spoke at an annual social sponsored by the Friends of Barbados DLP Association, the party’s New York branch headed by Lennox Price. Held at Nazareth Hall High School in Brooklyn, the “cocktail sip,” as it was called, attracted its largest crowd ever, between 600 to 700 Barbadians, some from Toronto and Massachusetts.» —“Thompson appeals for ‘good sense’” by Tony Best Natioan (Barbados) Feb. 19, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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