egg cream

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   made of milk and flavored syrup with soda water

   Broadersoft drink

Questions about egg cream

What does egg cream mean?

egg cream means "made of milk and flavored syrup with soda water".

Is egg cream a common word?

egg cream is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.