milk bottle
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.31 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A glass bottle traditionally used for doorstep delivery of fresh milk.
Example Sentences
- "Clinton waits on the beach for the new arrivals, hoping that one of them will bring him good fortune. "I look for the milk bottles," he says, explaining how ultra-white skin is a giveaway, "the ones who've just arrived. Milk bottles that need filling ...""
- "SLY: Lots of white milk bottles? ANDRE: (Laughs.) Yeah mon. SLY: The whiter the better. Fill dem up."
- "While it is not uncommon for “rent-a-dreads” to roam the beaches, or even wait at the airports, in search of “milk bottles,” a term used to describe white female tourists, the idea that this is somehow a natural part of the landscape is problematic and creates a myth which, as mentioned before, replicates colonial forms of discourse and maintains the broader geopolitical power structure"