coney island
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.06 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, known for its boardwalk and amusement parks.
noun
noun
A type of restaurant selling Coney Island hot dogs, popular in the northern United States, particularly in Michigan.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Coney Island (“hot dog”).
Example Sentences
- "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.""
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Konijneneiland