milk float

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   a van (typically powered by electricity) with an open side that is used to deliver milk to houses

   Broadervan

   United Kingdom

Questions about milk float

What does milk float mean?

milk float means "a van (typically powered by electricity) with an open side that is used to deliver milk to houses".

Is milk float a common word?

milk float is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.