ice-cream van

A form of ice cream van — A vehicle from which ice cream is sold at the roadside, mostly to children.

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Meanings

nounice-cream van (plural ice-cream vans)

plural ice-cream vans

  1. alternativeAlternative form of ice cream van.

    And if I ever heard an ice-cream van chiming nearby, I’d drop everything and beg, ‘Ice peam – want one!’

    2014, Chanelle Hayes, Anna Pointer, Chanelle Hayes: Baring My Heart, John Blake, →ISBN, page 11
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    The ruck passes clean through bramble hedges, scattering the circling crowd when the ‘bottle’ breaks loose into the hilltop meadow full of ice-cream vans, pushchairs, picnics and ambulances.

    2008, 1000 Things to Do in Britain, Time Out Guides, →ISBN, page 106

    Maudie must have thought of her dropped ice cream yesterday, because she clamoured desperately for a Whippy when she saw an ice-cream van on the way to the woods, but Alice wouldn’t hear of it.

    2012, Jacqueline Wilson, Four Children and It, Puffin Books, →ISBN, page 287
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APA

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MLA

“ice-cream van.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ice-cream%20van. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

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