milkman
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milkman (plural milkmen)
- A man who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses early in the morning.
- 1959 March, R. C. Riley, “Home with the Milk”, in Trains Illustrated, page 154:
- Our milkman is a jovial character, but not one given to yodelling at the customers on his round. Only the resounding "clonk" of bottles advises us that a couple of pints have been left on the doorstep.
- (US, slang) A black man who prefers dating white women.
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man who delivers milk early in the morning
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