condensed milk

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condensed milk (countable and uncountable, plural condensed milks)

  1. Milk that has been reduced and sweetened to the consistency of syrup.
    Hypernyms: milk < dairy product
    Coordinate terms: evaporated milk, powdered milk
    • 2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 86:
      She holds the condensed milk tin over the first mug and watches the pale yellow milk stream down in a thin, viscous line.

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