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egg creams

egg creams is the plural of egg cream.

Meaning of egg cream

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

Questions about egg creams

What is egg creams the plural of?
Egg creams is the plural of egg cream.

Words near egg creams in the dictionary

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

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