A cocktail skewer or cocktail stick is a short cylindrical stick, made of wood or sometimes metal, that has a somewhat sharp point on one or both ends. It is usually used as a skewer for holding decorations (such as cherries) in cocktails and also for serving food such as amuse-bouches at cocktail parties.

Ingestion of cocktail sticks, or fragments of them, has been known to cause injuries in several parts of the alimentary canal.^[1][2]

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• Cocktail umbrella
• Swizzle stick
• Toothpick

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• Williams, Kenneth; Freud, Clement; Jones, Peter; Kelly, Henry; Parsons, Nicholas (21 July 1984). "The origin of the cocktail stick". Script from Just a Minute. BBC Radio. Archived from the original on 1 February 2008.

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