Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - milk

(milks, milking, milked) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Milk is the white liquid produced by cows, goats, and some other animals, which people drink and use to make butter, cheese, and yoghurt. He popped out to buy a pint of milk. ...basic foods such as meat, bread and milk. N-UNCOUNT 2. If someone milks a cow or goat, they get milk from it, using either their hands or a machine. Farm-workers milked cows by hand. VERB: V n 3. Milk is the white liquid produced by women to feed their babies. Milk from the mother’s breast is a perfect food for the human baby. N-UNCOUNT 4. Liquid products for cleaning your skin or making it softer are sometimes referred to as milks. ...sales of cleansing milks, creams and gels. = lotion N-MASS 5. If you say that someone milks something, you mean that they get as much benefit or profit as they can from it, without caring about the effects this has on other people. A few people tried to milk the insurance companies... The callous couple milked money from a hospital charity to fund a lavish lifestyle. VERB: V n, V n from n c darkgreen]disapproval 6. see also coconut milk, condensed milk, evaporated milk, skimmed milk