1. Sidekick
   Robin to my Batman
2. Back
   Extra

The little glass of non-alcoholic something something that sits beside your drink is called a back. For instance, you may order "scotch with a soda back."

1. Double header
   One two punch
2. Clear intention
   Call drink

The call drink is the term for an order placed specifically, naming the liquor and the mixer. For instance, "I'll take a Bacardi and Diet Coke."

1. Dash
   Smidgen
2. Droplet
   Atom

Adding a little dash of something means that it's just a bit of that ingredient. For instance, you could order a martini with a dash of cranberry. However, that's not advised.

1. Blaze
   Flame
2. Ignite
   Toast

To flame a drink is to set it on fire, common with Sambucca and 151-proof rum. It's highly advised that you not try this at home.

1. Decoration
   Ornament
2. Tinsel
   Garnish

Garnish is added after the fact for visual presentation, such as a lemon wedge, cherry or umbrella. You can eat the garnish if you're hungry, but stay away from the umbrella.

1. Snifter
   Tumbler
2. Highball
   Goblet

A highball is liquor + soda + tall glass. The tall glass itself is referred to as a highball.

1. Jigger
   Widget
2. Doohickey
   Contraption

The jigger is a simple little tool for measuring a normal 1-ounce or 1.5-ounce pour. That being said, jiggers come in different sizes.

1. Muddle
   Addle
2. Tumble
   Muck

When you muddle ingredients for a cocktail, you use a tool called a muddler, and this releases the essential oils from the ingredients. For instance, for a Mojito, you will muddle mint leaves. Yum.

1. Chick
   Pony
2. Taste
   Cordial

A pony is a dainty one-ounce shot of something. Most people will have a pony, and then they'll crave a whole horse.

1. Circling
   Looping
2. Girding
   Rimming

When you rim a glass, you first wet it with water or lemon/lime juice, then you dip the rim into salt or sugar, depending on the cocktail. Margaritas and Bloody Marys are generally rimmed with salt.

1. Spritzer
   Wine cocktail
2. Sex on the Beach
   Sangria

Sangria always involves wine, juice and fruit, and often it includes triple sec as well. There are tons of variations of this recipe, and either red or white wine can be used.

1. Generic drink
   Well drink
2. Universal drink
   Anonymous drink

Well drinks are ordered in haste and do not contain specifics. For instance, when someone orders a "gin and tonic" or a "vodka and soda."

1. Beater
   Whisk
2. Tumbler
   Bar spoon

Bar spoons are quite long and are used to mix drinks. They're long so that they can dip down deep into a shaker.

1. Chaser
   Solution
2. Cooler
   Aqua vite

A chaser is something that accompanies a shot of hard liquor. It can help to diminish the strength and is often taken quite quickly after the initial shooter.

1. Dirty
   Sloppy
2. Murky
   Mediterranean

A dirty martini has olive juice in it, straight from the jar. The more olive juice there is, the dirtier the martini.

1. Hover
   Float
2. Piggyback
   Totem pole

When one alcohol is heavier than another it will float atop the other one. You can create a floater that has three or more different kinds of alcohol as well.

1. Clean
   Neat
2. Tidy
   Simple

When you order whiskey neat, then you just want the booze in a glass, with nothing else to disturb it. Most often, whiskey drinks served neat are presented in a whiskey glass. Duh.

1. Rolling
   Jostling
2. Canning
   Flummoxing

When you roll a drink, you take the already constructed cocktail, pour it into the shaker once, and then dump it right back into the glass. Sometimes the back-and-forth pour is repeated.

1. Cold shelf
   Fast track
2. Express shelf
   Speed rail

The speed rail holds some of the most common liquors, such as vodka, tequila, rum and the like. It also holds popular mixes, so that the bartender can get to these things quickly.

1. Virgin
   Maiden
2. Angel
   Nun

A virgin cocktail is one that has no booze in it and is, ​therefore, no fun at all. For instance, you can order a virgin margarita or a virgin Bloody Mary.

1. Zingers
   Bitters
2. Sour
   Liquid relish

Bitters were originally created as a digestive aid, but these days bitters are added to bring out the flavor of a cocktail. The slightly bitter taste is a good complement to the alcohol and sweeter ingredients.

1. Congealing
   Frosting
2. Freezing
   Chilling

You chill a glass with ice and water, generally while you're mixing the drink in a shaker. After you have chilled the drink, you pour the ice out and put the drink in. A chilled glass adds to the enjoyment of cold drinks and prevents condensation.

1. Dry
   Arid
2. Stale
   Bald

A dry martini only has a faint hint of vermouth. An extra dry martini has no vermouth at all, and perhaps just a drop of scotch added to the glass before the martini is poured.

1. Complementary pour
   Discount pour
2. Free pour
   Full pour

A free pour refers to no use of tools such as a jigger or measured pour spout. This kind of pouring requires confidence, experience or just a devil-may-care attitude.

1. Optimum
   Extravagant
2. Superior
   Premium

Premium alcohol is the best of the best. For example, bar rail gin is Beefeater, but if you want the premium, then you order Tanqueray.

1. Fruit
   Potatoes
2. Corn
   Nuts

Vodka can me made from a number of different grains, potato, fruit or even just from sugar. Nuts, however, cannot turn into vodka. But it would be fun to try.

1. Acidifier
   Kick in the pants
2. Sour
   Green machine

The sour is a mix of usually lime or lemon with simple syrup. This is added to drinks to give a little kick. For instance, a vodka sour uses the lime mix, as does a margarita.

1. Ethanol
   Toddy
2. Campfire
   Hooch

A warm toddy is perfect for a winter's day, or when you have a sore throat. Often involving lemon, honey, hot water and whiskey, in Ireland it's just known as a hot whiskey.

1. Building
   Molding
2. Crafting
   Concocting

Building a drink refers to creating a cocktail in several stages, beginning with the ice, then adding liquor, juice, bitters, etc. The garnish would be the final step of the building process.

1. A cocktail
   Booze smoothie
2. A refresher
   A cooler

Coolers can be found at your local convenience store, and they can be made from a number of different things. For instance, there are strawberry wine coolers and peach vodka coolers, as well as hard lemonade. These are gateway​ drinks for high school kids.

1. Put it outside during the winter
   Dip it in water and then place in the freezer
2. Submerge it in ice
   Buy one of those glass-frosting kits you find around Christmastime

Particularly effective for beer glasses, frosting is achieved by dipping a glass in water, then placing it in the freezer. This gives the glass an inviting, frosty appearance.

1. Plastic
   Ceramic
2. Metal
   Glass

Shaker tins are almost always made from metal, and that provides the marvelous sound of ice against metal when shaking a martini. That sound can be as powerful for you as the sound of a dog bowl being filled with food for your furry friend.

1. Bow
   Loop
2. Curl
   Twist

It's common to add a twist to martinis, and this is a little curl of lemon rind. This is created by using a peeler or lemon zester.

1. A blend of at least two kinds of alcohol and two kinds of juice.
   Anything that involves two liquid ingredients of any kind.
2. Liquor + juice + bitters in a 1:1:1 ratio.
   Any blend of alcohol and a mixer, often shaken.

A cocktail refers to an alcohol or liqueur combined with a mixer and then shaken or stirred. So no, your grandma's cranberry and soda is not a cocktail, even though she says it is.

1. Swizzle stick
   Mini umbrella
2. Toothpick
   Chopstick

Technically, you could try, but it's not going to work. It's too long, too thick, and it's for eating sushi. Mini chopsticks might work.