Milk drunk
Also called milk-drunk, milk drunk face, drunk on milk, #milkdrunk
Milk drunk is the sleepy, floppy, blissed-out look a baby gets after a big feed. Parents say it fondly, comparing the baby to a happily tipsy adult.
How it's said
Who says it
Where it came from
The phrase borrows from being drunk: a baby full of milk dozes off at the breast or bottle and looks like a content, passed-out adult. Parents were writing it online, often in quotation marks, by 2008.
It spread further with social media. In 2022 a mother's TikTok video of her newborn son, tagged #milkdrunk, drew 7.7 million views, with commenters joking that he was floating.