Reply #8: BUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTT - that's not a cocktail, is it?

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Straight up, it's just straight up, though I bet that you are not drinking it straight up, but are drinking it neat.

Neat = pour the liquor, with no additives, into a glass

On the rocks = it's neat, but over ice

Straight up = pour the booze over ice, shake or stir it, then pour it out, straining the ice, into a glass

With branch water or Coke or Seven, it moves into the realm of a mixed drink. If on ice, it's an "on ice mixed drink".

Mixed drink = liquor mized with one or more non-liquors

cocktail = liquor mixed with other liquor, and quite possibly with non-alcoholic liquids (such as lemon, grapefuit juice, bitters, sugar, etc.)