milkshake

From milk + shake.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪlk.ʃeɪk/, [ˈmɪɫk.ʃeɪk]

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milkshake (plural milkshakes)

1. A thick beverage consisting of milk and ice cream mixed together, often with fruit, chocolate, or other flavoring.
   • 2019 May 21, Luke McGee, “Right-wing British politicians are having milkshakes thrown over them. Here’s why”, in CNN‎^[1]:

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

   • 2021 August 24, Charles Riley, “McDonald’s has run out of milkshakes in the UK”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     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.

   • 2023, Seamus Bruner, Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life:

     It should come as no surprise that while the peasants are expected to eat fermented fungi, lab-grown meats and maggot milkshakes, the Controligarchs — with their private chefs — have no intention of doing the same,

2. (New England, Australia, New Zealand) 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. (mechanics, informal) 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. (slang, horse racing) An alkaline supplement administered to a horse to improve its racing performance.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Jen Roytz, “Cosequin presents OTTB Showcase: A One Rocket (a.k.a. “Rocky”)”, in Paulick Report‎^[3], archived from the original on 30 April 2025, page 1:

     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.

   • 2025, Katie Bo Lillis, Death of a Racehorse: An American Story, page 60:

     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.

• (thick beverage): frappe (New England), cabinet (Rhode Island), thickshake (Australia, New Zealand)

milkshake (third-person singular simple present milkshakes, present participle milkshaking, simple past and past participle milkshaked)

1. (transitive, slang, horse racing) To administer an alkaline supplement to (a horse) to improve its racing performance.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Jen Roytz, “Cosequin presents OTTB Showcase: A One Rocket (a.k.a. “Rocky”)”, in Paulick Report‎^[4], archived from the original on 30 April 2025, page 1:

     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. (transitive, informal, neologism) To throw a milkshake at (a person).

   A politician was milkshaked during the protest.

   • 2019 May 21, Luke McGee, “Right-wing British politicians are having milkshakes thrown over them. Here’s why”, in CNN‎^[5]:

     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.

   • 2019 May 26, Stewart Lee, “Are milkshakes the new politics of resistance?”, in The Guardian‎^[6]:

     Indeed, the day before Farage was milkshaked, Leave EU issued an unauthorised, and now withdrawn, re-edit of a Beastie Boys video, showing him and Ann Widdecombe pouring beer over their political opponents.

• frappe
• coffee cabinet
• malt
• malted milk

Borrowed from English milkshake.

milkshake c (singular definite milkshaken, plural indefinite milkshakes)

1. milkshake

• “milkshake” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from English milkshake.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪlk.ʃeːk/

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• Hyphenation: milk‧shake

milkshake m (plural milkshakes, diminutive milkshakeje n)

1. milkshake

• milk-shake

Borrowed from English milkshake.

• IPA^(key): /milk.ʃɛk/

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milkshake m (plural milkshakes)

1. milkshake

   Synonym: (North America) lait frappé

Borrowed from English milkshake.

milkshake m (definite singular milkshaken, indefinite plural milkshaker, definite plural milkshakene)

1. a milkshake

• “milkshake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from English milkshake.

milkshake m (definite singular milkshaken, indefinite plural milkshakar, definite plural milkshakane)

1. a milkshake

• “milkshake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Unadapted borrowing from English milkshake.

• Rhymes: -ejki, -ɐjkɨ

milkshake m (plural milkshakes)

1. milkshake (milk beverage with or without ice cream)

   Synonym: batido

• “milkshake”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Unadapted borrowing from English milkshake.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmilɡʃeik/ [ˈmilɣ̞.ʃei̯k]
• Rhymes: -ilɡʃeik

milkshake m (plural milkshakes)

1. milkshake (milk and ice cream beverage)
   • 2011, José Miguel Aguilera, Ingeniería Gastronómica, Ediciones UC, →ISBN, page 120:

     La manera de estabilizar una espuma por largos períodos es rigidizando las paredes de manera de obtener una matriz muy espesa como en los milkshakes, semisólida como en las sustancias (marshmallows), o definitivamente sólida como en los ...

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   • 2015, Thalita Rebouças, ¡¿En serio, amiga?!, VR Editoras, →ISBN:

     Fue sirviendo las mesas hasta llegar a la nuestra, con los milkshakes y... un licuado de plátano. Que nadie pidió.

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   • 2017, Emma Sepúlveda, Gringosincrasias: Cómo sobrevivir en Estados Unidos y entender su idiosincrasia, Editorial Catalonia, →ISBN:

     Cuando piden cinco hamburguesas con tres bolsitas de papas fritas, una cajita con un tremendo pedazo de pie de manzana, y dos milkshakes, en el Burger King, no tendrían para qué sentirse culpables al pedir los 3 litros de Coca Cola ...

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Unadapted borrowing from English milkshake.

milkshake c

1. milkshake

• “milkshake”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “milkshake”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)