cocktail music

English

Etymology

Typically played in cocktail bars.

Noun

cocktail music (uncountable)

1. lounge music
   • 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 3, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     […] now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.