CONDENSED MILK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does condensed milk mean? 

• CONDENSED MILK (noun)
  The noun CONDENSED MILK has 1 sense:

1. sweetened evaporated milk

  Familiarity information: CONDENSED MILK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONDENSED MILK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sweetened evaporated milk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("condensed milk" is a kind of...):

milk (a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings)

 Context examples 

Louis, the boat-steerer, had already begged me for condensed milk and sugar.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Why, I was his wet-nurse. I put 'm to bed, snug every night. His mother died, and I brought 'm up on condensed milk at two dollars a can when I couldn't afford it in my own coffee. He never knew any mother but me.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I discovered that we stood in need of condensed milk and marmalade, and announced that I was going aboard.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And as she had followed the trend of my silence, she now followed the trend of my speech, and she knew that I was going aboard, not because of condensed milk and marmalade, but because of her and of her anxiety, which she knew she had failed to hide.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)