(UK) Full cream milk, normally homogenised and pasteurised, having a silvery top to the bottle.
(UK) Full cream milk, normally homogenised and pasteurised, having a silvery top to the bottle.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(British, uncountable) full-cream milk, having a green top to the bottle.
(UK) Milk from which about half of the cream has been removed.
A distinctly Canadian term for homogenized whole milk — the standard full-fat milk where the cream has been mechanically blended in so it doesn't separate. In Canada, 'homo milk' is completely unremarkable grocery store terminology: you'll see it on cartons, in corner stores, and heard in everyday conversation without a second thought. To non-Canadians, the label can cause a double-take, but in Canada it's just your regular 3.25% fat milk. A great example of how regional vocabulary can sound wildly different to outside ears.
(Canada) Homogenized whole milk.
(slang) An old person.
Just ask yourselves this question, you older men, you silver-tops here—What was done with toxic thyroid disease before men like Charles Mayo, the elder Kocher, Crile, Miles F. Porter and other men established the surgery of toxic thyroid…
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