: 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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Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 June 2025
Pictures of some of the dogs enjoying an ice-cream treat on the hot day.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
Tim Newcomb, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
High temps and long days call for old-school ease: bike rides, beach reads, and after-dinner ice cream.
—Christina Holevas, Vogue, 30 June 2025
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Adjective
We’re fed Apollo Bar highlights like a salad rosso, a globe of radicchio segmented with chunks of blood orange, a blooming artichoke, and seasonal strawberry ice-cream cake.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 June 2025
Pictures of some of the dogs enjoying an ice-cream treat on the hot day.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
Noun
Wimbledon prides itself on serving food from the British Isles (in 2024, no food was brought in via air freight) and has a mix of popular English staples, whether smoked trout, heritage tomatoes, chicken, potatoes, brownies, lamb, cured meats and, of course, cheese and ice cream.
—Tim Newcomb, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
High temps and long days call for old-school ease: bike rides, beach reads, and after-dinner ice cream.
—Christina Holevas, Vogue, 30 June 2025
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“Ice-cream.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice-cream. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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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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