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cream·er

   [kree-mer]
noun
1.
a person or thing that creams.
2.
a small jug, pitcher, etc., for holding cream.
3.
a container or apparatus for separating cream from milk.
4.
a refrigerator in which milk is placed to facilitate the formation of cream.
5.
a nondairy product in powder or liquid form, made chiefly from corn syrup solids and used as a substitute for cream, especially for coffee cream.
Origin:
1855–60; cream + -er1

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cream

   [kreem]
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.
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6.
a yellowish white; light tint of yellow or buff.
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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., especially 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, especially 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.
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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, especially to pass (a test or course), with great ease and success: She creamed the math test, getting the highest grade in the class.
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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; Middle English creme < Anglo-French, Old French cresme < Late Latin chrīsma chrism
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creamer (ˈkriːmə)
 
—n
1.  a vessel or device for separating cream from milk
2.  a powdered substitute for cream, used in coffee
3.  chiefly (US), (Canadian) a small jug or pitcher for serving cream

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Word Origin & History

cream
early 14c., 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 1580s. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck"
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is 1929, U.S. colloquial. Related: Creamy (c.1600). Cream-cheese is from 1580s. Creampuff, in fig. sense of "weakling, sissy" is recorded from 1930s.
"I remember my first campaign. My opponent called me a cream puff. That's what he said. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me." [Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., 1987]
As a salesman's word, "something that is a tremendous bargain," it is from 1940s.
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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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Slang Dictionary

cream definition


  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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