Definition of Brompton cocktail in English:

Brompton cocktail

nounˈbrɒmpt(ə)nˌbrämpt(ə)n ˈkäkˌtāl

A powerful painkiller and sedative consisting of vodka or other spirit laced with morphine and sometimes also cocaine.
Example sentencesExamples
- Over the next twenty years of writing and lecturing, Saunders did much to promote this mixture and other variants of the "Brompton Cocktail."
- His situation degenerated to the point he was downing Brompton cocktails, a mixture of 60 percent morphine, 30 percent cocaine, and 10 percent gin, meant for terminal cancer patients.
- Certain estimable English doctors were once in the habit of administering to terminally-ill cancer patients an elixir known as the "Brompton cocktail".

Origin

1960s: said to be from the name of Brompton Hospital, London, where the mixture was invented for cancer patients.

Definition of Brompton cocktail in US English:

Brompton cocktail

nounˌbrämpt(ə)n ˈkäkˌtāl

A powerful painkiller and sedative consisting of vodka or other liquor laced with morphine and sometimes also cocaine.
Example sentencesExamples
- His situation degenerated to the point he was downing Brompton cocktails, a mixture of 60 percent morphine, 30 percent cocaine, and 10 percent gin, meant for terminal cancer patients.
- Certain estimable English doctors were once in the habit of administering to terminally-ill cancer patients an elixir known as the "Brompton cocktail".
- Over the next twenty years of writing and lecturing, Saunders did much to promote this mixture and other variants of the "Brompton Cocktail."

Origin

1960s: said to be from the name of Brompton Hospital, London, where the mixture was invented for cancer patients.

单词	Brompton cocktail
释义	Definition of Brompton cocktail in English: Brompton cocktail nounˈbrɒmpt(ə)nˌbrämpt(ə)n ˈkäkˌtāl A powerful painkiller and sedative consisting of vodka or other spirit laced with morphine and sometimes also cocaine. Example sentencesExamples Over the next twenty years of writing and lecturing, Saunders did much to promote this mixture and other variants of the "Brompton Cocktail." His situation degenerated to the point he was downing Brompton cocktails, a mixture of 60 percent morphine, 30 percent cocaine, and 10 percent gin, meant for terminal cancer patients. Certain estimable English doctors were once in the habit of administering to terminally-ill cancer patients an elixir known as the "Brompton cocktail". Origin 1960s: said to be from the name of Brompton Hospital, London, where the mixture was invented for cancer patients. Definition of Brompton cocktail in US English: Brompton cocktail nounˌbrämpt(ə)n ˈkäkˌtāl A powerful painkiller and sedative consisting of vodka or other liquor laced with morphine and sometimes also cocaine. Example sentencesExamples His situation degenerated to the point he was downing Brompton cocktails, a mixture of 60 percent morphine, 30 percent cocaine, and 10 percent gin, meant for terminal cancer patients. Certain estimable English doctors were once in the habit of administering to terminally-ill cancer patients an elixir known as the "Brompton cocktail". Over the next twenty years of writing and lecturing, Saunders did much to promote this mixture and other variants of the "Brompton Cocktail." Origin 1960s: said to be from the name of Brompton Hospital, London, where the mixture was invented for cancer patients.
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