chocolate milk
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- noun
- /ˈtʃɔkəlɪt mɪlk/
:
leche con chocolate
- How about a big glass of chocolate milk?
- a carton of chocolate milk
- a glass of chocolate milk
- a pint of chocolate milk
Now that tastes less sweet than chocolate milk in North America.
- Now that tastes less sweet than chocolate milk in North America.
- This kid's like, yeah, and he drank it expecting apple juice, but he got chocolate milk, very different tastes.
- Sorry brother, I had to grow up on squared pizza and chocolate milk.
- I would, I would get a chocolate milk and a cooked chook, which is like a hot chicken.
- I mean seriously, if this machine were filled with chocolate milk I could literally drink it in one sitting, which I will begin to do now.
- Oh, they got, they got milk, they got chocolate milk, they got diet milk.
- If you don't think it's chocolate milk, it's good.
- Our fridge is stock with chocolate milk and the man is lactose intolerant.
Examples
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Hey, you want some chocolate milk?
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Where I had a burger with fries and some chocolate milk.
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I need you to go get me some chocolate milk, all right?
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Mom, can I have a chocolate milk?
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And is that chocolate milk I see?
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Would you like a glass of chocolate milk?
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And we were given a cup of chocolate milk.
Fiction book (1997) -
Jack is mixing a glass of chocolate milk.
Fiction book (2000) -
We're drinking chocolate milk, aren't we?
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Would you like a glass of chocolate milk?
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase 'chocolate milk' is directly compositional: a beverage consisting of 'milk' flavored with 'chocolate', so a B1 learner who knows both constituent nouns can infer the meaning. This kind of noun–noun combination is common cross-linguistically and follows regular English compounding patterns, making the expression clearly transparent.
Etymology
Chocolate milk The name chocolate milk comes from mixing chocolate with milk to make a sweet drink. That simple picture explains why it means 'a milk drink flavored with chocolate'.