school milk

British  

noun

1. social welfare (formerly, in Britain) a third of a pint of milk, originally provided free by the local education authority to all young pupils, then later given only to children who passed a needs or means test

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Example Sentences

Hundreds of parents have signed a petition calling for plant-based options in UK nursery and school milk schemes to "help promote inclusivity and ensure all children can benefit".

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

The shortage is affecting the company’s ability to “fully supply some school milk orders,” according to Matt Herrick, spokesperson for the International Dairy Foods Association.

From Washington Times • Nov. 3, 2023

He told the Guardian newspaper that a Dutch school milk program was thought to be one reason the population had grown so tall in recent decades.

From Washington Post • Sep. 19, 2021

It's a nostalgia Capaldi himself embraces, putting it in a bracket with "the Beatles and Sunday Night At The London Palladium, and school milk and bronchitis, and smog and little S-buckled belts".

From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2014

She’d changed out of the stained shirt she’d been wearing into her red Chuck E. Cheese polo, and was sitting with her backpack in her lap, drinking a container of school milk.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green