: 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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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 June 2026
Cafés and ice-cream parlors are packed.
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Thomas Chatterton Williams,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
Lilit Marcus,
CNN Money,
27 June 2026
The restaurant is using 40-count russets from Sun Valley Potatoes, weighing about 1 1/4 pounds each, and also partnered with Westside Drive In to offer the ice cream potato for dessert.
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Jim Keyser. Produced With Ai Assistance,
Idaho Statesman,
27 June 2026
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Adjective
There's also casual Italian fare at Bottega; castaway lunches at Drift, set on the uninhabited island of Jehunuhura; and Scoops for smoothies and free ice-cream cones.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 June 2026
Cafés and ice-cream parlors are packed.
—
Thomas Chatterton Williams,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
Noun
One of the classic summer vacation foods is ice cream, but eating it fast enough to avoid melting is always a challenge.
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Lilit Marcus,
CNN Money,
27 June 2026
The restaurant is using 40-count russets from Sun Valley Potatoes, weighing about 1 1/4 pounds each, and also partnered with Westside Drive In to offer the ice cream potato for dessert.
—
Jim Keyser. Produced With Ai Assistance,
Idaho Statesman,
27 June 2026
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“Ice-cream.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice-cream. Accessed 1 Jul. 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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