milk bar
Noun
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Noun
milk bar (plural milk bars)
- (Australia) A convenience store.
- A small shop and/or cafe, often part of a larger shop, that sells fast food and a range of dairy based beverages such as milkshakes and ice creams; a deli or delicatessen.
- 1972, The Australian, quoted in 1988, Lois E. Foster, David Stockley, Australian Multiculturalism: A Documentary History and Critique, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qq9rGnoKRxIC&pg=PA211&dq=%22milk+bar%22|%22milk+bars%22+australia&hl=en&sa=X&ei=m2OvT9qwFcmcmQWRm9C4CQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22milk%20bar%22|%22milk%20bars%22%20australia&f=false page 211],
- As one immigration man put it, “More pofessional migrants — and especially teachers — from countries like Italy and Yugoslavia would help to dispel the idea some Australians still have that the only migrants we get from these countries are milk-bar owners or greengrocers.”
- 2008, Anna Krien, Turning off the Lights, Delia Falconer (editor), The Best Australian Stories 2008, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=16miy8g_7W4C&pg=PA131&dq=%22milk+bar%22|%22milk+bars%22+australia&hl=en&sa=X&ei=m2OvT9qwFcmcmQWRm9C4CQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22milk%20bar%22|%22milk%20bars%22%20australia&f=false page 131],
- Once he was at the milk bar, trying to buy cigarettes with an old bus ticket even though he didn′t smoke. Mum was upset about the cigarettes and the milk-bar man was angry about the bus ticket Dad was shoving into his hand.
- 2009, Andrew Bain, Ethan Gelber, Cycling Australia, Lonely Planet, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=iei-_SxDCaYC&pg=PA153&dq=%22milk+bar%22|%22milk+bars%22+australia&hl=en&sa=X&ei=m2OvT9qwFcmcmQWRm9C4CQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22milk%20bar%22|%22milk%20bars%22%20australia&f=false page 153],
- There′s another ATM at the newsagent, although Eftpos is possible at the milk bar and Maldon Pharmacy, both on Main St.
- 1972, The Australian, quoted in 1988, Lois E. Foster, David Stockley, Australian Multiculturalism: A Documentary History and Critique, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qq9rGnoKRxIC&pg=PA211&dq=%22milk+bar%22|%22milk+bars%22+australia&hl=en&sa=X&ei=m2OvT9qwFcmcmQWRm9C4CQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22milk%20bar%22|%22milk%20bars%22%20australia&f=false page 211],
- bodega
- convenience store
- corner store
- See also Thesaurus:retail store
- ice cream parlor
- delicatessen
- soda fountain
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