ice-cream float
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2.0
- noun
- /ˈaɪsˌkrim floʊt/
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refresco con helado
- She enjoyed her ice-cream float while lounging by the pool, relishing the cold, refreshing taste.
Examples
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And to cinch it, the girl on the bottle looked jubilant holding up her frothy brew, which to me (not much of a stout drinker) looked rather like an ice cream float.
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On a hot summer day, nothing beats sipping an ice-cream float made with soda and creamy vanilla ice cream.
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At the carnival, I treated myself to an ice-cream float topped with whipped cream and a cherry.
Synonyms
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3.3
A drink of soda with a scoop of ice cream
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2.9
A cold drink of root beer with a scoop of ice cream
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1.0
A cold drink with ice cream floating in sweet fizzy soda
Surface Forms
Morphology
ice-cream + float
The meaning is directly compositional: an ice-cream combined with the notion of a 'float' (a drink with something floating on top) yields a drink with ice cream floating in soda. This noun–noun composition is cross-linguistically transparent and a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can readily infer the intended drink sense.
Etymology
Ice-cream float comes from the simple picture of a scoop of ice-cream literally floating on top of fizzy soda. That's why the word float in the name means 'a cold drink with ice cream floating in a soft drink'.