Coney Island

See also: coney island

English

Etymology

From Dutch Konijneneiland, from konijn[en] (“rabbit[s]”) +‎ eiland (“island”), literally “island of rabbits”; equivalent to cony +‎ island.

Proper noun

Coney Island

1. A neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, known for its boardwalk and amusement parks.
   • 1993, Norman M. Klein, Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon, Verso, →ISBN, page 20:

     From 1916 to 1930, Fleischer would dress up as a Coney Island clown and have animators rotoscope films of him as Koko the Clown.

   • 2001, Anton Myrer, A Green Desire, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 427:

     "If they're planning to tum my Cape into a Coney Island midway, they'd better think twice!"

   • 2006, Nick Tosches, King of the Jews: The Greatest Mob Story Never Told, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 207:

     […] Sam Tietch, who performed as a Coney Island wrestler under the name of Vach "Cyclone" Lewis.

Derived terms

• Coney Island hot dog
• Coney Island whitefish

Noun

Coney Island (plural Coney Islands)

1. A Coney Island hot dog.
   • 1994, William J. Coughlin, In the Presence of Enemies, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 107:

     The waiter slammed the Coney Islands down in front of them....

   • 2004, Beth Allen, Susan Westmoreland, “Tales of the Coney Island Dog”, in Good Housekeeping Great American Classics Cookbook, →ISBN, page 49:

     By the 1970s, when Nathan's Famous rolled into cities far from New York, vendors realized that customers wanted a Coney Island "their way."

2. A type of restaurant selling Coney Island hot dogs, popular in the northern United States, particularly in Michigan.
   • 2017, Paul Vachon, Lost Restaurants of Detroit‎^[1], Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN:

     The Detroit-themed hotel, opened in 2012 was the first American location (and one of the few Coney Islands of any brand) outside Michigan to offer the same mouthwatering food as the original.

Alternative forms

• coney island