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horlicks

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Noun

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horlicks (countable and uncountable, plural horlicks)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Horlicks.
    • 2021 March 1, Carol Midgley, “McDonald & Dodds review – cheerful escapism and filth-free distraction”, in The Times[1]:
      McDonald & Dodds is back, with episode one so deliberately hammy and meta that, technically, it should have been a complete horlicks. In one scene, when they were all hanging on to the balloon ropes, Mr Bean-like, to stop Jason Watkins flying away, it sort of was.

Verb

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horlicks (third-person singular simple present horlickses, present participle horlicksing, simple past and past participle horlicksed)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Horlicks
    • 2009 August 23, Ben Dirs, “Strauss's England worthy winners”, in BBC Sport[2], archived from the original on 2021-01-09:
      Not the groundsman's fault Australia horlicksed it all up in the space of a couple of hours on Friday.