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cream

  [kreem]
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–noun
1. the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
2. a soft solid or thick liquid containing medicaments or other specific ingredients, applied externally for a prophylactic, therapeutic, or cosmetic purpose.
3. Usually, creams. a soft-centered confection of fondant or fudge coated with chocolate.
4. a purée or soup containing cream or milk: cream of tomato soup.
5. the best part of anything: the cream of society.
6. a yellowish white; light tint of yellow or buff.
–verb (used without object)
7. to form cream.
8. to froth; foam.
9. Informal. to advance or favor only the wealthiest, most skilled or talented, etc., esp. so as to reap the benefits oneself: Management is creaming by advancing only the most productive workers.
10. Also, cream one's jeans. Slang: Vulgar.
a. to have an orgasm, esp. to ejaculate or experience glandular lubrication of the vagina.
b. to be overcome, as in rapturous admiration or delight.
–verb (used with object)
11. to work (butter and sugar, or the like) to a smooth, creamy mass.
12. to prepare (chicken, oysters, vegetables, etc.) with cream, milk, or a cream sauce.
13. to allow (milk) to form cream.
14. to skim (milk).
15. to separate as cream.
16. to take the cream or best part of.
17. to use a cosmetic cream on.
18. to add cream to (tea, coffee, etc.).
19. Slang.
a. to beat or damage severely; lambaste.
b. to defeat decisively.
c. to accomplish, esp. to pass (a test or course), with great ease and success: She creamed the math test, getting the highest grade in the class.
–adjective
20. of the color cream; cream-colored.
—Idiom
21. cream of the crop, the best or choicest: a college that accepts only students who are the cream of the crop.
Origin:
1300–50; ME creme < AF, OF cresme < LL chrīsma chrism
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cream   (krēm)   
n.  

    1. The yellowish fatty component of unhomogenized milk that tends to accumulate at the surface.

    2. Any of various substances resembling or containing cream: hand cream.

  2. A pale yellow to yellowish white.

  3. The choicest part: the cream of the crop.

v.   creamed, cream·ing, creams

v.   intr.

  1. To form cream.

  2. To form foam or froth at the top.

v.   tr.

  1. To remove the cream from; skim.

    1. To take or remove (the best part): creamed off the highest-paying jobs for her cronies.

    2. To take the best part from: creamed the whole department to form his management team.

    3. To defeat overwhelmingly: creamed our rival on their home court.

    4. To damage severely; destroy: My camera got creamed when I dropped it.

  3. To beat into a creamy consistency.

  4. To prepare or cook in or with a cream sauce.

  5. To add cream to.

  6. Slang

    1. To defeat overwhelmingly: creamed our rival on their home court.

    2. To damage severely; destroy: My camera got creamed when I dropped it.


[Middle English creme, from Old French craime (from Late Latin crāmum, of Celtic origin) and from Old French cresme (from Latin chrīsma, an anointing, from Greek khrīsma, unguent, from khrīein, to anoint; see ghrēi- in Indo-European roots).]
cream adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
cream

  1. tv.
    to beat someone; to outscore someone. : The other team creamed us, but we had better team spirit.

  2. semen. (Usually objectionable.) : His father found some cream in the john and went into a purple rage.
  3. in. & tv.
    to ejaculate [semen]. (See cream (in)one's pants.) : He creamed right on the floor.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

cream 
1332, from O.Fr. cresme, blend of L.L. chrisma "ointment" (from Gk. chrisma "unguent"), and L.L. cramum "cream," perhaps from Gaulish. Replaced O.E. ream. Re-borrowed from Fr. 19c., as creme. Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" is from 1581. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. Cream-cheese is from 1583.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: cream
Pronunciation: 'krEm
Function: noun
1 : the yellowish part of milk containing from 18 to about 40 percent butterfat
2 : something having the consistency of cream; especially : a usually emulsified medicinal or cosmetic preparation —creamy /'krE-mE/ adjective
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

cream (krēm)
n.

  1. The yellowish fatty component of unhomogenized milk that tends to accumulate at the surface.

  2. A pharmaceutical preparation consisting of a semisolid emulsion of either the oil-in-water or the water-in-oil type, ordinarily intended for topical use.

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