ice-cream shop

plural ice-cream shops

1. alternativeAlternative form of ice cream shop.

   For instance, if you plan to open an ice-cream shop in Kailua, compare your estimates to actual sales of other ice-cream shops in Honolulu or on the outer islands.

   1988, Dennis Kondo, Business Basics in Hawaii: Secrets of Starting Your Own Small Business in Our State, Honolulu, Haw.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, page 18

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   Sergeant Spence, of the Northern District, speaking of the behaviour of the boys and girls who frequented the ice-cream shops, stated that they were in the habit of smoking cigarettes and dancing to music supplied by a mouth organ, while the language was more forcible than polite.

   1991, Francis McKee, “Ice Cream and Immorality”, in Harlan Walker, editor, Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1991: Public Eating: Proceedings, Prospect Books, published 1992, →ISBN, pages 202–203

   They ate together a couple of evenings a week, went to movies, played in the park, visited the ice-cream shop, even went grocery-shopping once when Kyle stopped by as Jamie and Ashley were on their way to do that weekly chore.

   1999, Tara Taylor Quinn, chapter 12, in Her Secret, His Child, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 179