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egg cream

egg cream noun: a drink consisting of milk and soda water with vanilla or chocolate syrup.

Noun

egg cream (countable and uncountable, plural egg creams)

  1. (New-York-City, US, especially) A drink consisting of milk and soda water with vanilla or chocolate syrup.
    • One time soon after I got to town [Baltimore, in 1966], I walked into a luncheonette on Charles Street, its long soda fountain retreating back from the street, and asked for an egg cream. The young woman behind the counter stood there, looking at me blankly. “A what?” she asked. “An egg cream,” I...2022, Robert Kanigel, Young Man, Muddled, Bancroft Press, →ISBN, page 16

Forms of egg cream

pluralegg creams

Origin of egg cream

Various theories exist, since the drink contains neither eggs nor cream. See Egg cream in Wikipedia.

Questions about egg cream

What does egg cream mean?
Egg cream means a drink consisting of milk and soda water with vanilla or chocolate syrup.
What part of speech is egg cream?
Egg cream is a noun.
What is the plural of egg cream?
The plural of egg cream is egg creams.

Words near egg cream in the dictionary

  1. egg cozy
  2. egg crate
  3. egg crated
  4. egg crates
  5. egg crating
  6. egg cream
  7. egg creams
  8. egg cup
  9. egg cups
  10. egg custard
  11. egg custard tart

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