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milk crate

milk crate is the alternative form of milkcrate.

Meaning of milkcrate

Noun

milkcrate (plural milkcrates)

  1. A cubic box originally made of wood but now usually of plastic, used to carry dairy products and for storage or presentation in markets.
    • After closing the window and tossing the milkcrate into the weeds, he returned to Garvy who was pissed off for being left in the alley for so long.1998, Jervey Tervalon, Jervey Tervalon, Living for the city, link

Forms of milk crate

pluralmilk crates

Questions about milk crate

What is milk crate the alternative form of?
Milk crate is the alternative form of milkcrate.

Words near milk crate in the dictionary

  1. milk chocolaty
  2. milk churn
  3. milk churns
  4. milk cow
  5. milk cows
  6. milk crate
  7. milk crates
  8. milk crust
  9. milk crusts
  10. Milk Day
  11. milk delivery door

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Adapted from Wiktionary: milk crate (page history and authors); milkcrate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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