1the thick white or pale yellow fatty liquid which rises to the top when milk is left to stand and which can be eaten as an accompaniment to desserts or used as a cooking ingredient:strawberries and cream [as modifier]:a cream cake
the part of a liquid that gathers at the top:the tank contains 24,000 gallons of cream and 12,000 gallons of serum
a sauce, soup, dessert, or other dish containing cream or having a creamy consistency:a tin of cream of mushroom soup
[count noun] a sweet of a specified flavour which is creamy in texture:a peppermint cream
[count noun] a biscuit with a creamy filling:a custard cream
2a thick liquid or semi-solid cosmetic or medical preparation applied to the skin:shaving cream [count noun]:moisturizing creams
3the very best of a group of people or things:the paper’s readership is the cream of American society
4a very pale yellow or off-white colour:the dress is available in white or cream [as modifier]:a cream linen jacket
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1work (butter, typically with sugar) to form a smooth paste:you cream the butter first and then add the egg yolks
(usually as adjective creamed) mash (a cooked vegetable) with milk or cream:creamed turnips
add cream to (coffee):she poured Jack a coffee and creamed and sugared it
2rub a cosmetic cream into (the skin):Madge was creaming her face in front of the mirror
3 informal, chiefly North American defeat (someone) heavily in a sporting contest:on paper, England should have creamed Scotland
collide heavily with (someone), especially in a car:she got creamed by a speeding car
4 [no object] vulgar slang (of a person) be sexually aroused to the point of producing sexual secretions.
[with object] moisten (one’s underpants) due to sexual arousal.
the cream of the crop
the very best of a particular group of people or things:the researchers and institutions in this network are the cream of the crop
cream something off
take the best of (a group of people or things), especially in a way that is considered unfair:the schools cream off some of the more able pupils
make (an excessive profit) on a transaction:they have been accused of creaming off fat profits in house insurance commission
