A drink consisting of milk and soda water, flavoured with syrup.
〈美〉蛋奶（一种由牛奶和苏打水混合并用糖浆调味的饮料）
Example sentencesExamples
Perched on a seat at the counter, you can have an egg cream or a phosphate lemonade, even if you're not old enough to remember sharing one with your high-school sweetheart.
And I thought of my father, how he would have liked that appliance shop, and how if he'd been here maybe afterward we'd go to the diner on the corner of Broadway for an egg cream.
The egg creams Rachel and I had afterwards at the Howard Johnson's were mighty tasty, though.
He brought over an egg cream, thinking that she might be enticed into drinking it.
Even the specials menus, advertising milkshakes, egg creams and the Lakeview's trademark breakfast pizza are still chalked onto the wall.
Definition of egg cream in US English:
egg cream
nounˌɛɡ ˈkrimˌeɡ ˈkrēm
US
A drink consisting of milk and soda water, flavored with syrup.
〈美〉蛋奶（一种由牛奶和苏打水混合并用糖浆调味的饮料）
Example sentencesExamples
And I thought of my father, how he would have liked that appliance shop, and how if he'd been here maybe afterward we'd go to the diner on the corner of Broadway for an egg cream.
He brought over an egg cream, thinking that she might be enticed into drinking it.
Even the specials menus, advertising milkshakes, egg creams and the Lakeview's trademark breakfast pizza are still chalked onto the wall.
Perched on a seat at the counter, you can have an egg cream or a phosphate lemonade, even if you're not old enough to remember sharing one with your high-school sweetheart.
The egg creams Rachel and I had afterwards at the Howard Johnson's were mighty tasty, though.