# ice cream

Pronunciation: US say "ICE kreem" /ˈaɪs.kɹiːm/; UK say "ice KREEM" /ˌaɪsˈkɹiːm/

## Noun

1. A frozen dessert made from sweetened cream or a similar mixture, usually flavored.
   - Simple: A sweet, cold food made from frozen cream, often with a flavor like chocolate.
   - _We had warm apple pie with vanilla ice cream for dessert._
   - _The shop on the corner makes its own ice cream in more than thirty flavors._
2. A single serving of ice cream, whether on a stick, in a cup, or in a wafer cone.
   - Simple: One serving of ice cream in a cone, in a cup or on a stick.
   - _The kids each got an ice cream from the truck after the game._
   - _We bought three ice creams and ate them on the boardwalk._

## Other meanings

- (noun) The drug methamphetamine.

## Origin

A fixed form of a reduced pronunciation of iced cream, with the -d regularly lost before a cluster of consonants; from iced + cream. Compare mash potato.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/ice-cream (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).