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Fire Island

American  

noun

  1. a narrow sand spit off S Long Island, New York: summer resort and lighthouse station. ¼–½ mi. (0.4–0.8 km) wide; 30 miles (48 km) long.


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However, when she arrived on Fire Island, she realized this was not a work retreat, but a double date.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

Yang also had a role in the film, and has starred in previous films including The Wedding Banquet, Fire Island, Bros and the first Wicked film.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025

Jumping back two years, to 2022, Hulu rolled out the rainbow carpet for "Fire Island" during Pride Month.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2025

Tina Fey spent the summers of 2002 and 2003 hunched over an old desk in the mildewy back room of a Fire Island rental home.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2024

She was on her way back to America, in 1850, a passenger in the merchantman Elizabeth, when the ship was wrecked off Fire Island and she perished with it.

From Literary New York Its Landmarks and Associations by Hemstreet, Charles