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CONDENSED MILK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does condensed milk mean?
• CONDENSED MILK (noun)
The noun CONDENSED MILK has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: CONDENSED MILK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sweetened evaporated milk
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("condensed milk" is a kind of...):
milk (a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings)
Context examples
Louis, the boat-steerer, had already begged me for condensed milk and sugar.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Why, I was his wet-nurse. I put 'm to bed, snug every night. His mother died, and I brought 'm up on condensed milk at two dollars a can when I couldn't afford it in my own coffee. He never knew any mother but me.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I discovered that we stood in need of condensed milk and marmalade, and announced that I was going aboard.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
And as she had followed the trend of my silence, she now followed the trend of my speech, and she knew that I was going aboard, not because of condensed milk and marmalade, but because of her and of her anxiety, which she knew she had failed to hide.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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