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  • noun Alternative form of milk bar.

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Examples

  • I remember the lollies called sherbert bombs we bought at the milkbar were the same sort of thing; a nasty waxy lolly filled with fizzy sherbert.

    Only in Australia? Niki 2005

  • I remember the lollies called sherbert bombs we bought at the milkbar were the same sort of thing; a nasty waxy lolly filled with fizzy sherbert.

    Archive 2005-02-01 Niki 2005

  • The Korova milkbar was a milk-plus mesto, and you may, O my brothers, have forgotten what these mestos were like, things changing so skorry these days and everybody very quick to forget, newspapers not being read much neither.

    Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses 1996

  • The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking.

    Eric’s Top 10 Movies That Prove the Future Will Suck » Scene-Stealers 2008

  • But then again, perhaps Australia is diverse enough that all you need to talk of globalisation is to take a walk to the closest milkbar and observe...

    thinking with my fingers Torill 2002

  • For one moment I had forgotten that Phuong must have been in the milkbar on the other side of the square.

    The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955

  • I said, "At least tell me what happened to the milkbar": the smoke was clearing and I tried to see, but the crowd between was too great.

    The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955

  • How is it fair for someone who runs a milkbar to pay the same tax rate as a multinational bank, mining company or supermarket giant.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • How is it fair for someone who runs a milkbar to pay the same tax rate as a multinational bank, mining company or supermarket giant.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • How is it fair for someone who runs a milkbar to pay the same tax rate as a multinational bank, mining company or supermarket giant.

    Yahoo!7 News - Top Stories 2010

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