milk

milk
1 /mIlk/ noun (U)
1 a white liquid produced by cows or goats that is drunk by people: a bottle of milk | Would you like some milk in your tea?
2 a white liquid produced by female animals and women for feeding their babies
3 a liquid or juice produced by certain plants, especially the coconut (1)
4 the milk of human kindness literary ordinary kindness and sympathy for other people
—see also: evaporated milk, skimmed milk, cry over spilt milk cry 1 (5), land of milk and honey land 1 (8) 2 verb (T)
1 to take milk from a cow or goat
2 informal to get as much money or as many advantages as you can from a situation, in a very determined and sometimes dishonest way: milk sb for sth: Their landlord regularly milks them for extra money by claiming for damage to his property. | milk sth for all it is worth: Reporters were milking Nixon's resignation for all it was worth.
3 to take the poison from a snake

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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