Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In card-playing, same as
fuzzing . - noun The act of drawing milk.
- noun The milk so obtained at one time.
- noun In racing slang, the keeping of a horse a favorite, at short odds, for a race in which he has no chance, or from which he is to be withdrawn, with the object of betting against him.
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- verb Present participle of
milk . - noun the act by which a cow, etc. is milked.
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Examples
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But if you look at bush league sports, the real money seems to be in milking cities and joining the line to milk the next round of owners.
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While commercial milking is done mechanically, you can ask to try hand milking.
Archive 2005-08-01 2005
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The night's milking is skimmed in the morning, and the morning's milk is skimmed about two o'clock in the afternoon: the two are then mixed together and put into a large copper kettle, suspended over a fire by a crane.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845
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It's called milking a film franchise for all it's worth.
New Posters: A Christmas Carol, Saw VI, Men Who Stare At Goats | /Film 2009
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First, i HATE the idea of milking it AGAIN with 2 versions.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy on Blu-ray Available on April 6th! – Collider.com 2009
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Environmentalists love the idea of milking Mother Nature for power, but they hate the hardware needed to make it work: huge windmills, acres of solar panels, high-voltage transmission lines to connect them to the places where people live.
Blowhards 2009
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Hi Trig - Hmm, I'm not sure how one would go about milking a kangaroo let alone catching it in the first place.
Barambah Butter Haalo 2007
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With the exception of some twenty cows and calves usually kept about the house, to give milk, which are called the milking herd, the grazier sees nothing of his herds but on muster-days, which occur twice a year.
Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson
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The cows were just being fastened for milking, that is to say they were tied by the head, each one to her stall, and then the hind leg was strapped so that there could be no danger of the animal kicking the pail over.
The Adventurous Seven Their Hazardous Undertaking Bessie Marchant 1901
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There were two quaint rush-bottomed chairs and a yellow stool, such as we tie with ribbons and call a milking stool.
A Little Girl in Old Boston Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873
bilby commented on the word milking
"Among the creme de la creme of British youth, an udderly bizarre trend has emerged: milking. Undergraduates stand in public spaces, open a four-pint bottle of milk and pour its contents over their fully clothed bodies."
- Milking: an udderly bizarre student trend, The Guardian, 26 Nov 2012.
December 2, 2012