oat milk

noun

plural oat milks
: a liquid made from ground oats and water that is usually fortified (as with calcium and vitamins) and used as a milk substitute

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In 2021, Starbucks locations across the U.S. began using oat milk. Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2024 For millennials and Gen Z-ers, material gain is more about these small, semi-expensive life-style choices—oat milk in your latte—than about bigger ones such as buying a house or having children, which are much harder to achieve in the absence of economic stability. Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 24 July 2024 For something basic, but not pumpkin: Head to Java House for a mapleton: a cinnamon-maple oat milk latte topped with maple oat milk cold foam. Arika Herron, Axios, 10 Sep. 2024 Seen here in tea green, the set is also available in oat milk. Leah Muncy, Architectural Digest, 20 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for oat milk 

Word History

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of oat milk was in 1980

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“Oat milk.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oat%20milk. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.

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