coney island

plural coney islands

1. Alternative letter-case form of Coney Island (“hot dog”).

   "I'll buy you a coney island...."

   2004, William J. Coughlin, Death Penalty, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 125

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   He knew there wasn't anything I liked better than a coney island and a strawberry Nehi.

   2002, Joe David Brown, Paper Moon, Thunder's Mouth Press,, →ISBN, page 6

1. A neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, known for its boardwalk and amusement parks.

   "If they're planning to tum my Cape into a Coney Island midway, they'd better think twice!"

   2001, Anton Myrer, A Green Desire, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 427

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   From 1916 to 1930, Fleischer would dress up as a Coney Island clown and have animators rotoscope films of him as Koko the Clown.

   1993, Norman M. Klein, Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon, Verso, →ISBN, page 20

   […] Sam Tietch, who performed as a Coney Island wrestler under the name of Vach "Cyclone" Lewis.

   2006, Nick Tosches, King of the Jews: The Greatest Mob Story Never Told, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 207

   Freud’s itinerary in the novel hews neatly to what he and his colleagues really did on their trip to the U.S.: They visited Chinatown and Central Park and the Met. They made it down to Coney Island, though Jung and Freud’s boat ride through the Tunnel of Love seems to be a Doctorowian flight of fancy.

   2022 September 7, Gillian Brassil, “The Real Lives of Early 20th-Century Celebrities, as Depicted in ‘Ragtime’”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022

plural Coney Islands · alternative coney island

1. A Coney Island hot dog.

   The waiter slammed the Coney Islands down in front of them....

   1994, William J. Coughlin, In the Presence of Enemies, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 107

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   By the 1970s, when Nathan's Famous rolled into cities far from New York, vendors realized that customers wanted a Coney Island "their way."

   2004, Beth Allen, Susan Westmoreland, “Tales of the Coney Island Dog”, in Good Housekeeping Great American Classics Cookbook, →ISBN, page 49

2. A type of restaurant selling Coney Island hot dogs, popular in the northern United States, particularly in Michigan.

   The Detroit-themed hotel, opened in 2012 was the first American location (and one of the few Coney Islands of any brand) outside Michigan to offer the same mouthwatering food as the original.

   2017, Paul Vachon, Lost Restaurants of Detroit, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN