Definitions
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- proper noun A specific
neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, known for itsboardwalk andamusement parks . - noun A
hot dog .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a section of Brooklyn on the Atlantic; known as an amusement center
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Examples
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We've got our own thrill rides right in that seedy urban backyard we refer to as Coney Island.
An Amusement Peak Anne Kadet 2011
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We've got our own thrill rides right in that seedy urban backyard we refer to as Coney Island.
An Amusement Peak Anne Kadet 2011
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A crowd estimated at 75,000 gathered in Coney Island, which is said to be the birthplace of fast food.
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On Saturday, we had our monthly RWA NYC meeting, where we voted that our July Outing would take place in Coney Island, which is exciting but totally unexpected.
Weekend Roundup Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2008
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On Saturday, we had our monthly RWA NYC meeting, where we voted that our July Outing would take place in Coney Island, which is exciting but totally unexpected.
Archive 2008-06-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2008
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A Coney Island is a restaurant that, contrary to what you might have been told, does not cater to Detroiters nostalgic for merry go rounds they have those in Detroit and in nearby Dearborn and other quaint NYC-type entertainments.
Great Idea #3: The Restaurant of Hope Adam Tierney-Eliot 2006
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A Coney Island is a restaurant that, contrary to what you might have been told, does not cater to Detroiters nostalgic for merry go rounds they have those in Detroit and in nearby Dearborn and other quaint NYC-type entertainments.
Archive 2006-02-01 Adam Tierney-Eliot 2006
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And it will pay you, by the way, to go out to Coney Island, which is a different place from any you have seen before.
The Adventures of a Boy Reporter Harry Steele Morrison
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I went along the shore to Coney Island, which is separated from Long Island only by a creek, and around the point, and came inside not far from a village called Gravesant, [128] and again home.
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Jasper Danckaerts 1898
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He had two studies where he read; one was the top of an omnibus, and the other a small mass of sand, then entirely uninhabited, far out in the ocean, called Coney Island ....
Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855
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