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milk float
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milk float
n
(Engineering / Automotive Engineering) Brit a small motor vehicle used to deliver milk to houses
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Noun1.milk float - a van (typically powered by electricity) with an open side that is used to deliver milk to housesmilk float - a van (typically powered by electricity) with an open side that is used to deliver milk to houses
van - a truck with an enclosed cargo space
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
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milk float n (Brit) → furgone m del lattaio


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PRANKSTERS diced with death when they broke into a dairy and used milk floats as dodgem cars.
Owner Kevin Bourne (pictured) said: "Everyone has a stock impression of milk floats travelling at 10mph, so you don't expect to see one accelerate to 80mph.
Wa lton MP Peter Kilfoyle was in no doubt: ``It's rush hour, when the bridge is packed, that the milk floats come out,''he said.
 
 
 
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