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Cocktail vs Bullshot - What's the difference?

cocktail | bullshot |

As nouns the difference between cocktail and bullshot

is that cocktail is while bullshot is a cocktail made from vodka and beef bouillon or bullshot can be (neologism|video games) a phony screenshot created for promotional purposes.

cocktail

English

(wikipedia cocktail)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A mixed alcoholic beverage.
    • They visited a pub noted for the wide range of cocktails they serve.
  • * 1806 , 13 May 1806 edition of Balance and Columbian Repository , published by Hudson, New York, (first appearance in print):
    • Cocktail is a stimulating liquor composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters — it is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that it fuddles the head.
  • A mixture of other substances.
    • Scientists found a cocktail of pollutants in the river downstream from the chemical factory.
    a cocktail of illegal drugs
  • A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in its veins.
    • (Darwin)
  • (UK, slang, dated) A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.
  • * Thackeray
    • It was in the second affair that poor little Barney showed he was a cocktail .
  • A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

    • Synonyms

    * mixed drink

    Derived terms

    * atomic cocktail * ckt * cocktail cabinet game * cocktail dress * cocktail frank * cocktail frankfurt * cocktail frankfurter * cocktail lounge * cocktail party * cocktail sauce * cocktail sav * cocktail savaloy * cocktail shaker * cocktail stick * cocktail table * Molotov cocktail

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Festive; lively.
  • *
    • now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.

    See also

    * swizzle * See also

    References

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    bullshot

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cocktail made from vodka and beef bouillon
  • * (seecites)

    • Etymology 2

    ." Potent New Lingo", ''Penny Arcade , 12 September 2005

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (neologism, video games) A phony screenshot created for promotional purposes.
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date = 2005-09-12 , title = Potent New Lingo , site = Penny Arcade , url = http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/09/12 , accessdate = 2012-06-15 , passage = Exhibit A is a textbook example of a bullshot , an image ginned up by marketing and foisted on people who don't know any better. }}
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date = 2009-08-15 , title = Media Manipulation: the "Bullshot " phenomenon , first = Richard , last = Leadbetter , site = Eurogamer , accessdate = 2012-06-15 , url = http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-media-manipulation-article , passage = Even the world's most technically proficient game-makers — industry leaders in graphical and gameplay innovation — seem shy to release actual screenshots of their forthcoming games, preferring instead to unleash super-scaled bullshots , or enhanced videos. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , date = 2012-03-19 , title = 7 Marketing Trends That Need To Stop , first = Ryan , last = King , magazine = , issn = 1747-7859 , url = http://www.play-mag.co.uk/general/7-marketing-trends-that-need-to-stop/ , accessdate = 2012-06-16 , passage = Sometimes they’ll fall under the ambiguous label of ‘visual target renders’, the small-print description of bullshots at the highest level. }}
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