Meanings
nounmilk shake (plural milk shakes)
plural milk shakes
- alternativeAlternative form of milkshake.
At first glance, Lincoln seemed caught in a time warp—a place of 1930s tourist cabins and Mom-and-Pop diners where one could get honest-to-goodness milk shakes, made in a blender with real ice cream.
2003, Alston Chase, “Ah, Wilderness!”, in Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, part 1 (The Unabomber: Crimes and Questions), pages 102–103
Synonyms & antonyms
nounfrothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
Broader
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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APA
milk shake. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/milk%20shake
MLA
“milk shake.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/milk%20shake. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “milk shake,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/milk%20shake.
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