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ice-cream cone
noun
: a thin crisp edible cone for holding ice cream
also
: one filled with ice cream
Examples of ice-cream cone in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Sanders: Poor guy with the ice-cream cone was going to be crossing the street in Honolulu.
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Vulture, 19 Oct. 2022
More or less crotchless pants, fall’s tall boots come in shapes from slouchy to stovepipe to inverted ice-cream cone.
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Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
The surprised waitress gave me a free vanilla ice-cream cone.
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Chloé Hayden, refinery29.com, 30 Aug. 2022
Frantically lick at an ice-cream cone the color of Dr. Manhattan.
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Alex McElroy, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2021
His subjects, mostly country folk and seemingly all white, posed against plain backdrops with their own props: an ice-cream cone, a football helmet, a fishing rod.
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Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 13 July 2021
The risible subplots range from the narrow-minded moms in Billie's social circle to Cooper's work dynamics, which include a boss (Li Jun Li) who looks at him the way kids eye an ice-cream cone.
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Brian Lowry, CNN, 25 June 2021
Today, just getting an ice-cream cone successfully feels like magic.
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Eva Hagberg, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2020
You’re not supposed to get an ice-cream cone for playing hard and having fun.
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Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 15 Sep. 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
1905, in the meaning defined above
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Cite this Entry
“Ice-cream cone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice-cream%20cone. Accessed 18 Aug. 2024.
Kids Definition
ice-cream cone
noun
: a crisp cone-shaped wafer for holding ice cream
also
: one filled with ice cream
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