Definitions

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  • verb transitive To milk (a cow or other animal) too much.

Etymologies

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over- +‎ milk

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Examples

  • To mix metaphors, if the pols overmilk this BofA cow they could well flip its mortgage entities into bankruptcy, and the AGs would get far, far less than that $8.5 billion.

    Forbes.com: News Steve Forbes 2011

  • But these men overmilk the melodrama with relentless sprawling guitars and Alejandro's earthy, downtrodden vocals.

    Evansville Courier & Press Stories 2010

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