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milkman Definition

milk·man (-man′)

noun pl. -·men′-men′

a man who sells or delivers milk for a dairy

milkman Usage Examples

Possessives

  • hat: How about an Everoak " Pilot " - after all, a milkman's hat had been popular since Brando's Wild One?

Converse of object

  • pay: Even when she could not pay the milkman there was always money for a movie.
  • use: The milkman used to come round every morning with a big can, and you brought out your jug to be filled up.
  • become: He was told to get an outdoor job, so became a milkman.
  • have: We fortunately have a milkman delivering to the remote cottage which like everything else around here is named after Agglestone.
  • call: Don't know, Ed, what do you call an Arab milkman?
  • hear: She heard the milkman, and called out, but he didn't hear.

Preposition: for

  • delivery: Contact your local scrap metal merchant Milk - Use the milkman for deliveries of milk, fruit juice and soft drinks.

Adjective modifier

  • fast: Sunday Post Quiz Answers, April 3, 2005 1 Ernie, the fastest milkman in the west in the Benny Hill song.
  • local: For example, buy milk and fruit juices from your local milkman who will collect empty bottles.
  • old: I see again the old Welsh milkman " wrestling " with me, they all wrestled with me, by prayer or exhortation.
  • former: He is Bert Bycroft, laboratory bench hand, and a former milkman.
  • poor: It included a song about remembering the poor milkman out there so early in the morning, in the cold and the dark.
  • new: He's the new milkman, replacing Dan Dairy who wasn't very good.

Preposition: in

  • west: Sunday Post Quiz Answers, April 3, 2005 1 Ernie, the fastest milkman in the west in the Benny Hill song.

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