milkshake

UK /ˈmɪlk.ʃeɪk/ US /ˈmɪlk.ʃeɪk/
noun 5verb 2

Definitions

noun

1

A thick beverage consisting of milk and ice cream mixed together, often with fruit, chocolate, or other flavoring.

On May 2, a Twitter user posted a video of Danyaal Mahmud throwing a milkshake over Robinson.

McDonald’s has been forced to stop selling milkshakes and bottled drinks at nearly 1,300 restaurants in the United Kingdom as Brexit-related staff shortages and supply chain delays caused by the pandemic continue to slam companies.

2

A thin beverage, similar to the above, but with no ice cream or significantly less of it.

3

A beverage consisting of fruit juice, water, and some milk, as served in Southeast Asia.

4

Accidental emulsion of oil and water in an engine.

This milkshake under the oil cap, or on the dipstick, indicates a blown head gasket.

5

An alkaline supplement administered to a horse to improve its racing performance.

It was the illegal administration by trainer Gregory Martin and subsequent positive test of a baking soda, sugar and water mixture – commonly known as a “milkshake” – prior to one of his runner’s 10 length romps in a $12,000 claiming race at Aqueduct on December 18, 2003 that initially helped to bring the $200 million in illegal wagers to light.

In 1999, the trainer Bobby Frankel was rumored to have given a high-profile filly a "milkshake" — a high dose of baking soda intended to increase endurance — before a race in Kentucky.

verb

1

To administer an alkaline supplement to (a horse) to improve its racing performance.

The name of the horse who was milkshaked was A One Rocket. Martin would later go on to plead guilty to the milkshaking incident and ultimately to two federal charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

2

To throw a milkshake at (a person).

A politician was milkshaked during the protest.

Carl Benjamin, another controversial candidate in the European elections, was milkshaked four times last week. […] The most recent milkshaking target is the former leader of Benjamin’s party, Nigel Farage, who left UKIP after it tried to admit Robinson as a member, claiming the party was fixated on Islam.

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