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coney island

coney island is the alternative letter-case form of Coney Island.

Proper noun capitalized: Coney Island

Coney Island

  1. A neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, known for its boardwalk and amusement parks.
    • From 1916 to 1930, Fleischer would dress up as a Coney Island clown and have animators rotoscope films of him as Koko the Clown.1993, Norman M. Klein, Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon, Verso, →ISBN, page 20
    • "If they're planning to tum my Cape into a Coney Island midway, they'd better think twice!"2001, Anton Myrer, A Green Desire, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 427

Noun capitalized: Coney Island

Coney Island (plural Coney Islands)

  1. A Coney Island hot dog.
    • The waiter slammed the Coney Islands down in front of them....1994, William J. Coughlin, In the Presence of Enemies, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 107
    • By the 1970s, when Nathan's Famous rolled into cities far from New York, vendors realized that customers wanted a Coney Island "their way."2004, Beth Allen, Susan Westmoreland, “Tales of the Coney Island Dog”, in Good Housekeeping Great American Classics Cookbook, →ISBN, page 49
  2. A type of restaurant selling Coney Island hot dogs, popular in the northern United States, particularly in Michigan.
    • The Detroit-themed hotel, opened in 2012 was the first American location (and one of the few Coney Islands of any brand) outside Michigan to offer the same mouthwatering food as the original.2017, Paul Vachon, Lost Restaurants of Detroit, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN

Forms of coney island

pluralconey islands
pluralConey Islands
alternative formconey island

Origin of coney island

From Dutch Konijneneiland, from konijn[en] (“rabbit[s]”) + eiland (“island”), literally “island of rabbits”; equivalent to cony + island.

Words formed from coney island

Questions about coney island

What does coney island mean?
Coney island means a neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, known for its boardwalk and amusement parks.
What is coney island the alternative letter-case form of?
Coney island is the alternative letter-case form of Coney Island.
What part of speech is coney island?
Coney island can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near coney island in the dictionary

  1. coneworm
  2. coneworms
  3. coney
  4. coney dog
  5. coney dogs
  6. coney island
  7. Coney Island hot dog
  8. Coney Island hot dogs
  9. Coney Island mirror
  10. Coney Island whitefish
  11. Coney Islander

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