milk bar

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milk bar

noun milk bars

  1. Australia A convenience store. 1972, The Australian, quoted in 1988, Lois E. Foster, David Stockley, Australian Multiculturalism: A Documentary History and Critique, page 211, As one immigration man put it, “More pofessional migrants — and especially teachers — from countries like Italy and Yugoslavia would help to dispel the ide
  2. A small shop or cafe, often part of a larger shop, that sells fast food and a range of dairy-based beverages such as milkshakes and ice creams; a deli or delicatessen. Today the State shows a benevolent face to Culture-Diffusion but to those who produce culture no trace of sympathy or indulgence, with the result that we are becoming a nation of commentators, of critics and hack-explainers, most of whom are ex-artists. Everything for the Milk-bar, nothing for the c

Similar: bodega, convenience store, corner store, dairy bar, ice cream parlor, delicatessen, soda fountain, soda shop, malt shop

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@misc{milk_bar_2026,
  title = {milk bar},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/milk%20bar},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}