milkshake
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Is milkshake a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (New England, Australia, New Zealand) A thin beverage, similar to the above, but with no ice cream or significantly less of it.AustraliaNew-EnglandNew-Zealand
2. (mechanics, informal) Accidental emulsion of oil and water in an engine.Examples: "This milkshake under the oil cap, or on the dipstick, indicates a blown head gasket."informal
3. (slang, horse racing) An alkaline supplement administered to a horse to improve its racing performance.Examples: "It was the illegal administration by trainer Gregory Martin and subsequent positive test of a baking soda, sugar and water mixture – commonly known as a “milkshake” – prior to one of his runner’s 10 length romps in a $12,000 claiming race at Aqueduct on December 18, 2003 that initially helped to bring the $200 million in illegal wagers to light."; "In 1999, the trainer Bobby Frankel was rumored to have given a high-profile filly a "milkshake" — a high dose of baking soda intended to increase endurance — before a race in Kentucky."slang
verb (English)
1. (transitive, slang, horse racing) To administer an alkaline supplement to (a horse) to improve its racing performance.Examples: "The name of the horse who was milkshaked was A One Rocket. Martin would later go on to plead guilty to the milkshaking incident and ultimately to two federal charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud."slangtransitive
2. (transitive, informal, neologism) To throw a milkshake at (a person).Examples: "A politician was milkshaked during the protest."; "Carl Benjamin, another controversial candidate in the European elections, was milkshaked four times last week. […] The most recent milkshaking target is the former leader of Benjamin’s party, Nigel Farage, who left UKIP after it tried to admit Robinson as a member, claiming the party was fixated on Islam."; "Indeed, the day before Farage was milkshaked, Leave EU issued an unauthorised, and now withdrawn, re-edit of a Beastie Boys video, showing him and Ann Widdecombe pouring beer over their political opponents."informalneologismtransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary