Milkshake

Quick meaning: Milkshake is a noun meaning A thick beverage consisting of milk and ice cream mixed together, often with fruit, chocolate, or other flavoring.

Meaning

A thick beverage consisting of milk and ice cream mixed together, often with fruit, chocolate, or other flavoring.

More Meanings

1. (New England, Australia, New Zealand) A thin beverage, similar to the above, but with no ice cream or significantly less of it.
2. A beverage consisting of fruit juice, water, and some milk, as served in Southeast Asia.
3. (mechanics, informal) Accidental emulsion of oil and water in an engine.
4. (transitive, slang, horse racing) To administer an alkaline supplement to (a horse) to improve its racing performance.
5. (transitive, informal, neologism) To throw a milkshake at (a person).
6. (slang, horse racing) An alkaline supplement administered to a horse to improve its racing performance.

Example Sentences

A politician was milkshaked during the protest.

This milkshake under the oil cap, or on the dipstick, indicates a blown head gasket.

On May 2, a Twitter user posted a video of Danyaal Mahmud throwing a milkshake over Robinson.

In 1999, the trainer Bobby Frankel was rumored to have given a high-profile filly a "milkshake" — a high dose of baking soda intended to increase endurance — before a race in Kentucky.

Word Forms

• milkshakes
• milkshaking
• milkshaked

Synonyms for milkshake

Depending on context, synonyms include frappe, cabinet, thickshake, shake.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shake, malt, mango, smoothie, thickshake, frosted.

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