In Rhode Island if you mix coffee or any other syrup with milk it is called a "milk shake". If you add ice cream, it's called a "cabinet" (don't know why). Others places call it a "frappe" or just a "milk shake". Coffee ice cream, syrup, etc used to be pretty much localized to southern New England at one time, so the "cabinets" are most often associated with coffee. I still stop in for a coffee "cabinet" once in a while when I visit and I know people who carry coffee syrup back with then when they return from RI.
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