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milk bottle en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. A glass bottle traditionally used for doorstep delivery of fresh milk.
2. (Australia) A small white jube (confectionary) in the shape of a milk bottle.
3. (Jamaica, derogatory, slang) A white woman who visits Jamaica as a sex tourist.
   • 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 ..." 2003 July 5, Julie Bindel, “The price of a holiday fling”, in Guardian Weekend, →ISSN:
   • 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 2012, Nickesia S. Gordon, “Virile Bodies, Docile Subjects”, in K. Gentles-Peart, M. L. Hall, editors, Re-Constructing Place and Space, Cambridge Scholars, →ISBN, page 25:
   • SLY: Lots of white milk bottles? ANDRE: (Laughs.) Yeah mon. SLY: The whiter the better. Fill dem up. 2006, Tanika Gupta, Sugar Mummies, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

Forms

Coordinates

carton · milk churn · milk can · jug · Stella

Relateds

bottle cap · milk caps

Translations (10)

fi maitopullo (glass bottle traditionally used for doorstep delivery of fresh milk) · ru моло́чная буты́лка (glass bottle traditionally used for doorstep delivery of fresh milk) · ja 牛乳瓶 (glass bottle traditionally used for doorstep delivery of fresh milk) · is mjólkurflaska (glass bottle traditionally used for doorstep delivery of fresh milk) · ko 우유병 (glass bottle traditionally used for doorstep delivery of fresh milk) · hrx Millichflasch (glass bottle traditionally used for doorstep delivery of fresh milk) · kn ಪಾಲ್ಬಟ್ಟಲ್ (glass bottle traditionally used for doorstep delivery of fresh milk) · kn ಪಾಲ್ಬಟ್ಟಲು (glass bottle traditionally used for doorstep delivery of fresh milk) · nl melkfles (glass bottle traditionally used for doorstep delivery of fresh milk) · de Milchflasche (glass bottle traditionally used for doorstep delivery of fresh milk)