0 a salad made with prawns, lettuce, and tomatoes in a cold sauce, usually eaten as a starter (= small dish served before a main course) and often served in a glass
I suspect that a bad prawn is good only for a rather bad curry, rather than for a good prawn cocktail.
The prawn cocktail offensive became an embarrassingly familiar item in journalists' columns.
It is similar to a prawn cocktail, but uses squid as the main ingredient.
They turn up at the same annual meetings, eat the same prawn cocktails and have the same impact on the share remuneration schemes because they benefit from share remuneration schemes.
All those prawn cocktails for nothing.
