milk

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.uncountable

• Skyr is a product made of curdled milk.

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

• Where it does fall down, however, is its nutritional value. While oats are largely a healthy grain to include in your diet, the milk is highly diluted with water, giving it little nutritional value.
• For environmentally minded consumers, the news is hard to swallow: almond milk is not healthy for the planet and the popular milk substitute is especially hard on bees.

An individual serving of milk.countableinformal

• Table three ordered three milks.

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

• I take my tea with two milks and two sugars.
• I take my tea with two milk and two sugar.

A light white color inspired by the color of milk, usually cow's milk.countableuncountable

The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.countableuncountable

Semen.slanguncountablevulgar

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

• The farmer milked his cows.

To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.intransitivetransitive

• to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows

Of a dairy cow, to produce milk.intransitive

• ‘The boss’s cows must be milking well,’ he said, ‘or has he added to his herd?’

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

• The black cow milking white milk, black hen on the nest laying white eggs.

To express a liquid from a creature.transitive

• The Australian government has a team that regularly milks various snakes for venom to use creating serums and antivenoms.

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

• When the audience began laughing, the comedian milked the joke for more laughs.
• July 21, 1877, "The Block in the Courts" in The Spectator They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.

To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation.

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

• Controlled milking can actually establish and consolidate a mistress’s dominance over her sub rather than diminish it.