Definition of "martini"

Even at Juneau's prices, ten dollars worth of martinis is a lot of liquor to drink in an hour.

1961 Jan, Robert Silverberg, Amazing Stories, page 26, column 2

Could any tigerDrink martinis, smoke cigars,And last as we do?

c. 1963, W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden, “Symmetries & Asymmetries”, in Edward Mendelson, editor, Collected Poems, New York: Random House, published 1976, page 551

He drank martini, played bridge in the club, and captured treaty-port life wickedly.

1997, Caroline Courtauld, May Holdsworth, The Hong Kong Story, Oxford, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, page 21

I had the feeling that had he been a smoker he would have lit a cigarette at this moment. I suspected that once he had been a smoker, for he seemed as if he wished someone would offer him one. He drank martini instead.

2006, Joan [Elizabeth] Taylor, Conversations with Mr. Prain, Hoboken, N.J.: Melville House Publishing, page 172

After the meal, they drank martini on the rocks in the lounge.

2007, Margaret S. Ngwa, Divine Love for Cleansing, Patron Publishing House, page 63