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Coney Island
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coney island
English
Etymology
From en nl Konijneneiland, from nl konijn eiland konijn[en] rabbit[s] island island of rabbits 1; equivalent to en cony island.
Proper noun
coney island
en neighborhood bor/Brooklyn s/New York, known for its boardwalk and amusement parks.
en 1993 Norman M. Klein Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon Verso 1859841503 20 From 1916 to 1930, Fleischer would dress up as a Coney Island clown and have animators rotoscope films of him as Koko the Clown.
en 2001 Anton Myrer A Green Desire HarperCollins 0060934638 427 "If they're planning to tum my Cape into a Coney Island midway, they'd better think twice!"
en 2006 Nick Tosches King of the Jews: The Greatest Mob Story Never Told HarperCollins 0060936002 207 Sam Tietch, who performed as a Coney Island wrestler under the name of Vach "Cyclone" Lewis.
en 2022-09-07 Gillian Brassil The Real Lives of Early 20th-Century Celebrities, as Depicted in ‘Ragtime’ w:T: The New York Times Style Magazine https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/t-magazine/ragtime-novel-characters-real.html 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20221103004436/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/t-magazine/ragtime-novel-characters-real.html
Derived terms
en Coney Island hot dog Coney Island mirror Coney Island whitefish Coney Island mirror Coney Islander
Noun
Coney Island
A Coney Island hot dog.
en 1994 William J. Coughlin In the Presence of Enemies St. Martin's Press 0312951647 107 The waiter slammed the Coney Islands down in front of them....
en 2004 Beth Allen; Susan Westmoreland Tales of the Coney Island Dog Good Housekeeping Great American Classics Cookbook 49 158816280X By the 1970s, when Nathan's Famous rolled into cities far from New York, vendors realized that customers wanted a Coney Island "their way."
A type of restaurant selling Coney Island hot dogs, popular in the northern United States, particularly in Michigan.
en 2017 Paul Vachon Lost Restaurants of Detroit Arcadia Publishing 9781439658512 https://books.google.com/books?id=QVdmDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT131&dq=%22Coney+Island%22++restaurant&hl=es&cd=15&source=gbs_api#v=snippet&q=%22Coney%20Islands%22%20%20&f=false 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.
Alternative forms
en coney island