(rare or archaic) Consisting of milk. || (rare) Milky; resembling milk.
The Milken Family Foundation named 10 Los Angeles-area high school students as 2006 Milken Scholars last week.
According to Objectivists, financier Michael Milken has done more for mankind than Mother Teresa.
Ivan Boesky laughed all the way to the bank, as did Milken, as do most people who commit clever, non-violent crimes and fraudulently enrich themselves.
(transitive) To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow). || (transitive) To express any liquid (from any creature). || (transitive, figuratively) To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, 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.
When their dreams are dashed, they hook up and turn into con artists, coming up with grander and grander schemes to milk some poor man of his hard-earned money.
People are bitten by exotic snakes while handling or feeding them, cleaning out their cages, milking them of their venoms, or attempting to steal them.
Farm-workers milked cows by hand.
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1.(of a cow) having a high milk yield.
‘the _milky_ little Jersey seems to be successful in the tropics’
2.Cloudy or opaque.
‘the old man’s _milky_ , uncomprehending eyes’
‘His eyes have gone all _milky_ and his skin has got darker, which shows that he’s about to get rid of his skin.’
3.Containing or mixed with a large amount of milk.
‘a cup of sweet _milky_ coffee’
‘Less well known is ocrochka, a cold soup made of potatoes, egg, ham, green onion, dill and cucumber in a _milky_ base.’
4.Resembling milk in colour.
‘not a blemish marred her _milky_ skin’
‘The soft, _milky_ , aquamarine colour comes from the blue-green algae that thrives in the lagoon and white Silica mud, which carpets the bottom with a light natural sediment.’
5.Weak and compliant.
‘they just talk that way to make you turn _milky_ ’