milk🔊

(Q8495)A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt. +

(white liquid from a vegetable source) (by extension) A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, or soy beans. +

(informal) An individual serving of milk.

(invariant) An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee.

The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.

(slang) Semen.

To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).

To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.

(rare) To secrete (milk) from the breasts or udder.

To express a liquid from a creature.

(figurative) To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, a source of funds, etc.); to exploit; to take advantage of (something).

(of an electrical storage battery) To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation.

(vulgar) To masturbate a male to ejaculation, especially for the amusement or satisfaction of the masturbator rather than the person masturbated. +