milk bottle

noun

A glass bottle traditionally used for doorstep delivery of fresh milk.

Meanings

nounmilk bottle (plural milk bottles)

plural milk bottles

  1. A glass bottle traditionally used for doorstep delivery of fresh milk.
  2. AustraliaA small white jube (confectionary) in the shape of a milk bottle.
  3. JamaicaderogatoryslangA white woman who visits Jamaica as a sex tourist.

    SLY: Lots of white milk bottles? ANDRE: (Laughs.) Yeah mon. SLY: The whiter the better. Fill dem up.

    2006, Tanika Gupta, Sugar Mummies, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN
    2 more examples

    Clinton waits on the beach for the new arrivals, hoping that one of them will bring him good fortune. "I look for the milk bottles," he says, explaining how ultra-white skin is a giveaway, "the ones who've just arrived. Milk bottles that need filling ..."

    2003 July 5, Julie Bindel, “The price of a holiday fling”, in Guardian Weekend, →ISSN

    While it is not uncommon for “rent-a-dreads” to roam the beaches, or even wait at the airports, in search of “milk bottles,” a term used to describe white female tourists, the idea that this is somehow a natural part of the landscape is problematic and creates a myth which, as mentioned before, replicates colonial forms of discourse and maintains the broader geopolitical power structure

    2012, Nickesia S. Gordon, “Virile Bodies, Docile Subjects”, in K. Gentles-Peart, M. L. Hall, editors, Re-Constructing Place and Space, Cambridge Scholars, →ISBN, page 25

Translations

Dutch melkfles
  • melkflesglass bottle traditionally used for doorstep delivery of fresh milk
Finnish maitopullo
  • maitopulloglass bottle traditionally used for doorstep delivery of fresh milk
German Milchflasche
  • Milchflascheglass bottle traditionally used for doorstep delivery of fresh milk
Icelandic mjólkurflaska
  • mjólkurflaskaglass bottle traditionally used for doorstep delivery of fresh milk
Japanese 牛乳瓶
  • 牛乳瓶 (gyūnyūbin)glass bottle traditionally used for doorstep delivery of fresh milk
Korean 우유병
  • 우유병 (uyubyeong)glass bottle traditionally used for doorstep delivery of fresh milk
Russian моло́чная буты́лка
  • моло́чная буты́лка (molóčnaja butýlka)glass bottle traditionally used for doorstep delivery of fresh milk
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Chicago

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