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sherry cobbler

noun

  1. a cobbler drink made with sherry, sliced fruits, and ice.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sherry cobbler1

First recorded in 1800–10

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Example Sentences

It was the sherry-cobbler of the age; although I believe every thing is now pronounced to be out of fashion before dinner.

He sometimes sucked it through a reed, just as a sherry cobbler is taken, while one of his slaves held the jar before him.

He ordered up a sherry cobbler apiece and brought out some of his rarest weeds.

Get me a brandy smash—a sherry cobbler—a gin rickey—rock and rye—a whisky sour—a mint julep!

I recognized him at once, for ten minutes before I had been sucking a sherry-cobbler with him out of the same rummer.

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