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Meaning: (informal,humorous,idiomatic)Cow’s milk.[1796, [Francis Grose], “Cow Juice”, inA Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 3rd edition, London:[…][Samuel]Hooper and[Henry]Wigstead,[…],→OCLC,signature [H3], recto:Cow Juice. Milk.]1966,Joan Williams,Old Powder Man, New York, N.Y.:Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.,→LCCN,page280:She called, “Alice Jean, acow juice,” and laughed, exposing gold fillings. “We seen it ordered that way in a picture show,” she said. Alice Jean brought the milk foamy from the spigot and went away without speaking.1967, Gavin Black [pseudonym;Oswald Wynd], chapter 7, inA Wind of Death(A Collins Novel of Suspense), London:Collins[…],page140:“[…]Perhapsbeef tea?” / “I had that boiledcow juicebefore, no thanks.”1976fall, Brenda Peterson, “Days Pass Away like Smoke”, inThe Sewanee Review, volume84, number 4,→ISSN, page545:[H]er fingers were brittle, broken at the wrinkles in her knuckles. These tiny white cracks caughtcow juicesand ragged slits of tobacco.[…]Ira Sloan remembered: his mother smelled of hot pungent milk and sweet smoke.1983,Betty Fussell, “[Sauces]Butter Sauce”, inMasters of American Cookery: M. F. K. Fisher, James Andrews Beard, Raymond Craig Claiborne, Julia McWilliams Child, New York, N.Y.:Times Books,→ISBN, part three,page126:The French treat butter as if it were meat juice twice removed, and it is a form of natural sauce if thought of as condensedcow juice.2002,Nancy Krulik,Out to Lunch(Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo; 2), New York, N.Y.:Grosset & Dunlap,→ISBN,pages71–72:“I’ll have a veggie wimpy and acow juice,” she told the lunch Lady. “And for dessert I’d like an Eve with a lid.”[…]She had no idea where the third-grader had learned the secret lunchroom language, but she gave Katie a veggie burger, a container of milk, and a slice of apple pie anyway.2007February 9, Ben Carrozza, Heather Adler, Jen McDonnell, “Sequel machine sucks life out of films”, inCanWest News, Don Mills, Ont.:Postmedia Network, page 1:Plans for more sequels deserve to be sliced, diced, drown[sic]in a vat of mulchedcow juicesand buried.2014,Jonathan Clements, “[Eating and Drinking] Drink”, inAn Armchair Traveller’s History of Finland,→ISBN:The baffled visitor will often encounter pasteurised milk, skimmed milk, semi-skimmed milk, fat-free milk, cream,coffeecream, sour milk, fortified milk, and usually also a lactose-free, fat-freemilk-free milk so removed from everydaycow juicethat European Union food regulations insisted its name be changed Milk Drink (maitojuoma).2015,John Connolly, Jennifer Ridyard, chapter 22, inEmpire(The Chronicles of the Invaders; 2), London:Headline Publishing Group,→ISBN,page143:‘Cheese is fermentedcow juices?’ / ‘Milk – gross!’2017June 15, River Donaghey, “A Lot of American Adults Think Brown Cows Make Chocolate Milk”, inVice[1], archived fromthe originalon12 November 2020:Chocolate milk is not the byproduct of brown cows; it is not gathered and siphoned into cartons after chocolate rainstorms; it's just normalcow juicewith some cocoa mixed in.2022, Gary T. Brideau, “A Change in Orders”, inThe Mystery of the Blue Saphier,[Bloomington, Ind.]:Xlibris,→ISBN:Kitty stated, “My husband, me, and my daughter; Bella, and Constance, will have[…]three coffees, and milk.” / The waitress hollered, “Order up! I need;[…]3 Angels on horseback, with 3 Belly warmers, and acow juice!”; (informal,rare)Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seecow,juice;liquidsfrombeef.1999,Hal Niedzviecki, “[The Pig Farm]Problems At Work”, inLurvy: A Farmer’s Almanac, Toronto, Ont.:Coach House Books,→ISBN,page30:Lurvy doesn’t care what she heard, doesn’t care about expanding feed-bed carriers, automatic empty early-warning fertilizer attachment trays, steaks warm incow juices.2001,C.D. Payne,Cut to the Twisp: The Lost Parts of Youth in Revolt and Other Stories, Sebastopol, Calif.: Aivia Press,→ISBN,page55:“[…]I asked the waitress. They use beef tallow for additional flavor.” /[…]Vijay groaned. “I have renderedcow juicesinside me. I’m going to be sick.”2010February 10, Nadia Arumugam, “Ignore Expiration Dates”, inSlate[2], archived fromthe originalon28 March 2019:There’s a filet mignon in my fridge that expired four days ago, but it seems OK to me. I take a hesitant whiff and detect no putrid odor of rotting flesh, no oozing, fetidcow juice—just the full-bodied aroma of well-aged meat.2015, Maya Corrigan[pseudonym; Mary Ann Roman Corrigan], chapter 1, inScam Chowder(A Five-Ingredient Mystery), New York, N.Y.:Kensington Books,→ISBN,page 2:He pointed to the two large pots on the stove. “Let’s go over what I’m supposed to do. I putcow juicein one of those pots and fish juice in the other. Which is which?” / “Put the broth in the light chowder on the left.[…]”2020, Nuan Se,Billionaire, Control Your Love[3], volume 4,[Funstory],→ISBN:In the dining room, they each ordered a Mexican steak and a bottle of red wine.[…]Ye Ling's manner of eating was very cute. He even brought the fatcow juiceto his mouth and Di An once again wiped Ye Ling's mouth with a napkin.
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