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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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Fashion designer Michael Kors has listed a modern beach compound on New York’s Fire Island for $6.25 million.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

Ted invited her to Fire Island under the guise of a work get-together.

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

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

If it was me, come daylight I’d boom off the Fire Island Channel and sweep the floatin’ stuff into it.”

From The Boss of Wind River by Chisholm, A. M. (Arthur Murray)

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