milk meaning and definition

MILK noun

Definition of milk (noun)

1. a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
2. produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young
3. a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River
   • synonyms: Milk River
4. any of several nutritive milklike liquids

MILK verb

Definition of milk (verb)

1. take milk from female mammals
   • "Cows need to be milked every morning"
2. exploit as much as possible
   • "I am milking this for all it's worth"
3. add milk to
   • "milk the tea"