milk round

British  

noun

1. a route along which a milkman regularly delivers milk

2. 1. a regular series of visits, esp as made by recruitment officers from industry to universities

   2. ( as modifier )

      milk-round recruitment

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milk round

Roper, who is originally from Lancashire, started his own milk round at 21 and ran it for 10 years before returning to education to study mechanical engineering.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

Short ranges and low top speed were unimportant for a milk round but near-silent running meant customers could sleep.

From Economist ● Feb. 15, 2018

Dad made windows and at one point Mum was doing the milk round in the morning, two parcel rounds during the day and working in my nan's chippy at night.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2016

Connery arrived before the show to give her a "spontaneous" tour of his old milk round, acting as a decoy for the BBC production team.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2011

On the scrubbed deal floor there stood a white deal tub, clean as new milk, round and copper bound.

From The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam