What'll it be -- a crusta or a daisy?

Technically speaking, a cocktail is a type of mixed drink containing spirits, sugar, water, and bitters. . . . Now the word serves as a catchall term for any alcoholic mixed drink, but the cocktail was originally just one member of a family that included things like flips, nogs, daisies, cobblers, crustas, smashes, slings, sours, and the granddaddy of them all, punch.

 Ezra Glinter on The Golden Age of Cocktails:
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/06/19/drinking-in-the-golden-age/

Bar talk: "The V.A. wants me to get laid. So that it will mellow me out."