Definition of "cream"

cream

/kɹiːm/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural creams
1. The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
  1. (standards of identity, US) The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
    Quotations
    You may have noticed that any time that filling is mentioned on Oreo packaging, it's called "creme." This is no typo. Technically, the creamy filling inside an Oreo is not cream at all: The recipe used actually contains no dairy; as such, the FDA prohibits Nabisco from labeling the product as "cream."
    2018 February 13, Rebecca Firsker, "What's Really in Oreo Cream Filling? Well, for One Thing, Not Cream", MyRecipes
  2. (standards of identity, UK) The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
  3. (tea and coffee) A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.
2. A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.
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  Hundreds of examples remain, still following the same general pattern—maroon, green or chocolate brown, for example, from ground to waist level, then a stale Cheddar cheese shade of cream above.
  1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 253
3. (informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
  Quotations
  Originally the cream filling in Oreo cookies was made with pork lard.
  2004, Joey Green, Joey Green's Incredible Country Store, Rodale, page 267
4. (figuratively) The best part of something.
  Quotations
  Welcome, O flower and cream of Knights-errant.
  1612, Thomas Shelton (translator), Don Quixote (originally by Miguel de Cervantes)
  “But the cream of it was," said Norman, pressing a large tortoiseshell-rimmed monocle into his eye, “you don't mind me telling this, Face, do you?”
  1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, page 124
  […] he can assure the assembled Deans that all this is true, and that the Academy has presently in residence no fewer than a third of the continent’s top thirty juniors, in age brackets all across the board, and that I here, who go by ‘Hal,’ usually, am ‘right up there among the very cream.’
  1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, page 4
5. (medicine) A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
  Quotations
  In vain she tries her paste and creams, / To smooth her skin or hide its seams.
  1756, Oliver Goldsmith, The Double Transformation
6. (vulgar, slang) Semen.
  Quotations
  He rode me for ten—or was it fifteen?—minutes before one final fuckthrust that filled me completely with his cream.
  2001, Darwin Porter, Hollywood’s Silent Closet: The Lusty Saga of America’s First Star F*#%er!![sic] (novel), Blood Moon Productions, Ltd., page 155
  He tucked his cock into his pants before rubbing his cream into her breasts in slow, teasing strokes.
  2003, Dominique Adair, “Two Days, Three Nights”, in Tied with a Bow, Ellora’s Cave Publishing, page 74
  When he did come, he spurted his cream all over the front of Rosalee’s T-shirt and neck.
  2004, Art Wiederhold, Wild Flowers‎, iUniverse, page 158
7. (obsolete) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
  Quotations
  there shall never harlot have happe, by the helpe of Oure Lord, to kylle a crowned Kynge that with Creyme is anoynted.
  1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889,
adjective
not comparable
1. Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.
verb
third-person singular simple present creams, present participle creaming, simple past and past participle creamed
1. To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
2. To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream.
3. (slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
4. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate (used of either gender).
  Quotations
  Danny Zuko: You are supreme / The chicks’ll cream / For grease lightning.
  1971, Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey, “Grease Lightnin’”, in Grease
5. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
6. (transitive, cooking) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
7. (transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
8. (transitive, figurative) To take off the best or choicest part of.
9. (transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
  Quotations
  creaming the fragrant cups
  1871, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Real Folks
10. (intransitive) To gather or form cream.

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