ice cream

noun

1. a frozen food containing cream or milk and butterfat, sugar, flavoring, and sometimes eggs.

ice cream

noun

1. a kind of sweetened frozen liquid, properly made from cream and egg yolks but often made from milk or a custard base, flavoured in various ways

Word History and Origins

Origin of ice cream¹

First recorded in 1735–45

Example Sentences

Examples of UPFs include sausages, crisps, pastries, biscuits, instant soups, fizzy drinks, ice cream and supermarket bread.

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Instead, she sits up from her basement’s fuzzy rug and kicks her legs out from the river of ice cream sandwich wrappers.

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Rich, buttery pears can be enjoyed straight off the skillet, coated in a light dusting of ground cinnamon, or topped with a dollop of ice cream or whipped cream.

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Kids walked to the local Thrifty ice cream shop, to Altadena Elementary and Eliot Middle School.

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She is juggling a part-time job at an ice cream shop and about 35 hours a week as vice president of a campus politics center, among other extracurriculars.

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