milk bar
A small shop or cafe, often part of a larger shop, that sells fast food and a range of dairy-based beverages such as milkshakes and ice creams; a deli or delicatessen.
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Multiple businesses, including Milk Bar and LALA's Argentine Grill, were targeted in a series of early morning break-ins along Melrose Avenue in the Fairfax District overnight.
Okay, more kittens. These two are fine, rolling around outside the carrier but inside the pen. Mom chirps like that at me because she's busy with the milk bar and wants me to put them back in the carrier. They are a…
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A small shop or cafe, often part of a larger shop, that sells fast food and a range of dairy-based beverages such as milkshakes and ice creams; a deli or delicatessen.
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(Australia) A convenience store.
1972, The Australian, quoted in 1988, Lois E. Foster, David Stockley, Australian Multiculturalism: A Documentary History and Critique, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qq9rGnoKRxIC&pg=PA211&dq=%22milk+bar%22|%22milk+bars%22+australia…
“Multiple businesses, including Milk Bar and LALA's Argentine Grill, were targeted in a series of early morning break-ins along Melrose Avenue in the Fairfax District overnight.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Okay, more kittens. These two are fine, rolling around outside the carrier but inside the pen. Mom chirps like that at me because she's busy with the milk bar and wants me to put them back in the carrier. They are a week old today!”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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