Meaning of coney island | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, known for its boardwalk and amusement parks.
2. A Coney Island hot dog.
3. Alternative letter-case form of Coney Island (“hot dog”).
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4. A type of restaurant selling Coney Island hot dogs, popular in the northern United States, particularly in Michigan.

Examples

“From 1916 to 1930, Fleischer would dress up as a Coney Island clown and have animators rotoscope films of him as Koko the Clown.”

“"If they're planning to tum my Cape into a Coney Island midway, they'd better think twice!"”

“[…] Sam Tietch, who performed as a Coney Island wrestler under the name of Vach "Cyclone" Lewis.”

“Freud’s itinerary in the novel hews neatly to what he and his colleagues really did on their trip to the U.S.: They visited Chinatown and Central Park and the Met. They made it down to Coney Island, though Jung and Freud’s boat ride through the Tunnel of Love seems to be a Doctorowian flight of fancy.”

“The waiter slammed the Coney Islands down in front of them....”

“By the 1970s, when Nathan's Famous rolled into cities far from New York, vendors realized that customers wanted a Coney Island "their way."”

“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.”

“He knew there wasn't anything I liked better than a coney island and a strawberry Nehi.”

“"I'll buy you a coney island...."”

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