: a sweet flavored frozen food containing cream or butterfat and usually eggs
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Noun
What flavor of ice cream do you like?
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Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 2 June 2026
Last week, on Capitol Hill, amid a sweltering late-spring heat wave, the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute set up food trucks, handing out ice-cream sandwiches.
—Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 28 May 2026
James Burky, Denver Post, 29 May 2026
To her daughter, 8-year-old Hazel (Nola Wallace), Paula is the fun parent, a mom who encourages ice cream for dinner, embraces cursing, enthusiastically participates in TikTok dances, and even coaches her daughter’s youth soccer team.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 29 May 2026
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Adjective
Sundae School Homemade Ice Cream, an ice-cream shop in the coastal town of Cape Cod, received hundreds of applications from teens for just 50 open summer jobs, the WSJ reported.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 2 June 2026
Last week, on Capitol Hill, amid a sweltering late-spring heat wave, the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute set up food trucks, handing out ice-cream sandwiches.
—Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 28 May 2026
Noun
Local food vendors line the concourse, serving up foot-long corn dogs out of a 20-foot red tent, ice cream, or kettle corn, to name a few.
—James Burky, Denver Post, 29 May 2026
To her daughter, 8-year-old Hazel (Nola Wallace), Paula is the fun parent, a mom who encourages ice cream for dinner, embraces cursing, enthusiastically participates in TikTok dances, and even coaches her daughter’s youth soccer team.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 29 May 2026
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“Ice-cream.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice-cream. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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ice cream
noun
(ˈ)ī-ˈskrēm 
ˈī-ˌskrēm
: a frozen food containing sweetened and flavored cream or butterfat
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