Definition of "malted milk" []

• A soluble powder made of dried milk, malted barley, and wheat flour. (noun)
• A beverage made by mixing milk with this powder and adding ice cream and flavoring. Also called malt, malted. (noun)

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• "We ate the cheese and malted milk in the packages-even when they had maggots in them."
• "Another sadly crippled old woman, the widow of a sea captain, although living almost exclusively upon malted milk tablets as affording a cheap form of prepared food, was always eager to talk of the beautiful illuminated manuscripts she had sought out in her travels and to show specimens of her own work as an illumi -"
• "Oh, what I would give for a crushed-ice strawberry daiquiri, a margarita, a malted milk shake, a tall glass of grapefruit juice, a cold bottle of Budweiser."