float
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3.3
- noun
- /floʊt/
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refresco con helado
- If we finished quickly, we'd get ice cream cones or root beer floats and sometimes feed ducks at the park.
- an ice cream float
- a root beer float
- a soda float
Put the two together that you when you guessed Coke float.
- Put the two together that you when you guessed Coke float.
Examples
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Give me a root beer float to go.
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I made you guys some root beer floats.
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Let's get you a root beer float.
Fiction book (1999) -
Oh, root beer float and a bacon burger...
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Coffee after coffee, my uncle was working off a binge, and I was having a sandwich and a root beer float.
Fiction book (1998) -
I ordered a Maid Rite, fries, and a root beer float.
Fiction book (1992) -
After school, she rang his doorbell, and he led her into the kitchen where he fixed her a Coke float.
Fiction book (1997) -
Go nostalgic with root beer or Coke floats.
Blog text (34) -
When I serve dessert, it's either homemade pudding (I like tapioca) or root beer floats.
Blog text (12) -
On a sunny day, nothing beats a refreshing orange soda float topped with creamy vanilla ice cream.
Synonyms
4
2.9
A cold drink of root beer with a scoop of ice cream
3
1.0
A cold drink with ice cream floating in sweet fizzy soda
1
2.0
A cold drink with ice cream floating in soda
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
An emergency raft on a ship for people to use if they must leave at sea
A position for floating face down in the water with arms stretched forward to rest and breathe
- Specialized
A device with a float that rests on collected rain to measure how much falls
- Specialized
A tool that measures rain using a float on the top of the collected water
- Specialized
A flat hand tool with a handle used to smooth wet wall material like plaster or cement
How Creamy
Surface Forms
Etymology
The dessert float is called that because the ice cream 'floats' on top of the soda; think of the ice cream as a little island that 'floats', which links back to the old English flotan 'to float'.