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fruit cocktail

British  

noun

  1. fruit salad consisting of small or diced fruits

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Use it in desserts, like a unique fruit cocktail with pernod, fennel fronds and tarragon for a layered anise flavor.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2025

It’s in the bright red cherries that dress up a bowl of Del Monte’s fruit cocktail.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2025

Then there are its tiny organs, which seem to float within this clear flesh, like a pale fruit cocktail in the weirdest Jell-O salad ever to grace a tree branch.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2022

She has the same memories of school lunches as most Americans born before the 21st century: square pizza and fruit cocktail.

From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2019

You eat gooey fruit cocktail and just before you power up your tablet, The Mac strolls in with his bowling bag, and duffel, sporting a blue and white hoodie that reads putyourFACEinaBOOK.

From "Booked" by Kwame Alexander