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milk

Definition

  • noun: a white liquid produced by a woman to feed her baby or by female animals to feed their young
  • noun: a fluid secreted by the mammary glands of females for the nourishment of their young
  • verb: to get milk from (an animal)
  • verb: to draw milk from the breasts or udder of
  • used of domestic animals

Examples

  • He was filled with 'the milk of human kindness'. [=he was filled with kindness; he was very kind]

  • They 'milked' [='exploited'] their advantage for all it was worth.

  • greedy landlords 'milking' their tenants of all their money

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Movie quotes

  • (..) ...it courses through the natural gates and alleys of the body, and with a sudden vigour... ...it doth posset and curd, like acid dropping into milk, the thin and wholesome blood So did it mine. And soon a foul eruption barked about, most leper-like... ...with vile and loathsome crust, (..)
    2015 Hamlet