WordWeb Online

1. The best people or things in a group
   "the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War";
   - pick
    
2. The part of milk containing the butterfat
    
3. Toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin
   - ointment, emollient

1. (cooking) make creamy by beating
   "Cream the butter"
    
2. Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
   "We creamed the other team on Sunday!";
   - bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick, trounce, wipe the floor, whale [N. Amer], hammer, slaughter, tromp [N. Amer], smoke [N. Amer], muller [Brit], beat hollow
    
3. Put on cream, as on one's face or body
   "She creams her face every night"
    
4. Remove from the surface
   "skim cream from the surface of milk"; "skim off cream from the surface of milk";
   - skim, skim off, cream off
    
5. Add cream to one's coffee, for example

1. Having the colour of fresh cream
   - cream-colored [US], creamy-colored [US], creamy-white, cream-coloured [Brit, Cdn], creamy-coloured [Brit, Cdn]

Derived forms: creams, creaming, creamed

See also: colored [US], colorful [US], coloured [Brit, Cdn], colourful [Brit, Cdn], cream off

Type of: apply, beat, beat out, crush, dairy product, elite, élite [Brit], elite group, modify, put on, remove, scramble, shell, take, take away, toilet articles, toiletry, trounce, vanquish, withdraw

Encyclopedia: Cream Cream, Wisconsin