silver top

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Full cream milk, normally homogenised and pasteurised, having a silvery top to the bottle. UK,countable,uncountable
  2. An old person. countable,slang,uncountable
    — Still I must confess that I was shocked at the president's complaint of the senility of the present Board of Overseers, […] as absurd as the assertion in one of your journals, that your Mr. Evarts 'was too old for a senator' and that he 'was too old to change his mind.' […] I contend that these charges are libellous, both as against Mr. Evarts and the Overseers. Still there are younger Alumni and you can, if you see fit, in your next election, drop some of us silver-tops and insert some younger graduates. Remember, however, that 'striving to do better, oft we mar what's well.'

词形变化

silver tops plural
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