milk bottle
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milk bottle (plural milk bottles)
- A glass bottle traditionally used for doorstep delivery of fresh milk.
- (Australia) A small white jube (confectionary) in the shape of a milk bottle.
- (Jamaica, slang, derogatory) A white woman who visits Jamaica as a sex tourist.
- Coordinate term: Stella
- 2003 July 5, Julie Bindel, “The price of a holiday fling”, in Guardian Weekend, ISSN 0261-3077:
- Clinton waits on the beach for the new arrivals, hoping that one of them will bring him good fortune. "I look for the milk bottles," he says, explaining how ultra-white skin is a giveaway, "the ones who've just arrived. Milk bottles that need filling ..."
- 2006, Tanika Gupta, Sugar Mummies, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- SLY: Lots of white milk bottles?
ANDRE: (Laughs.) Yeah mon.
SLY: The whiter the better. Fill dem up.
- 2012, Nickesia S. Gordon, “Virile Bodies, Docile Subjects”, in K. Gentles-Peart & M. L. Hall, editors, Re-Constructing Place and Space, Cambridge Scholars, →ISBN, page 25:
- While it is not uncommon for “rent-a-dreads” to roam the beaches, or even wait at the airports, in search of “milk bottles,” a term used to describe white female tourists, the idea that this is somehow a natural part of the landscape is problematic and creates a myth which, as mentioned before, replicates colonial forms of discourse and maintains the broader geopolitical power structure