icecream cone

A form of ice cream cone — An edible holder, usually sweet and usually a baked good, for ice cream.

Meanings

nounicecream cone (plural icecream cones)

plural icecream cones

  1. alternativeAlternative form of ice cream cone.

    I was chosen to carry out our impishness and in 10 minutes flat, I returned to our table from the confectioners with an icecream cone for each one of us, double yet.

    1956 January 18, Benny Rubin, “Hollywood Snobs”, in Variety, page 10
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    The short husbands with their outrageously patterned sports shirts arm in arm with purring wives too obviously full for slacks, the bawling kids with triple-decker icecream cones, the squealing teenagers, and the trailing grandfather with his beard and black hat.

    1959, Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Penguin Books, published 1973, page 71

    There was the day she was struggling back through the crowded foyer at intermission with five icecream cones for her friends, and the tall boy with the sallow face and strange blond hair asked so nicely if he could help her.

    1987, Nadine Gordimer, A Sport of Nature, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 10
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