icecream truck

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

Meanings

nounicecream truck (plural icecream trucks)

plural icecream trucks

  1. alternativeAlternative form of ice cream truck.

    They offered this awful, awesome thing, from which the recording of their song spewed like the tune of an icecream truck, as a gift, and the harbinger of a new golden age of humankind.

    2005, Cody Goodfellow, “Kungmin Horangi: The People’s Tiger”, in Robert Hood, Robin Pen, editors, Daikaiju!: Giant Monster Tales, Agog! Press, →ISBN, page 220
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    Have since moved through most of the far and southwest states as itinerant worker in ballparks, coliseums, icecream trucks, beanfields, etc, etc, settling for as long as a year at a time.

    1965, Donald M[erriam] Allen, Robert Creeley, editors, New American Story, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, Inc., →LCCN, page 277

    Boisterously as children besieging an icecream truck, they jockeyed for position in one of the lines, playing the dozens with their homeys, finetuning their Tales, catching up on cellblock scuttlebutt.

    1990, Seth Morgan, Homeboy, Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 237
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