milking

3 definitions • 4 examples

present participle of

to get milk from an animal:

Milking a cow by hand is a skilled process.

Some goats seem to milk (= produce milk) better than others.

to get as much money or information out of someone or something as possible, often in an unfair or dishonest way:

[ + obj + adj ] The newspapers milked the story dry.

The directors milked the company of several million dollars.