ice-cream van

See also: ice cream van, and icecream van

English

Noun

ice-cream van (plural ice-cream vans)

1. Alternative form of ice cream van.
   • 2008, 1000 Things to Do in Britain, Time Out Guides, →ISBN, page 106:

     The ruck passes clean through bramble hedges, scattering the circling crowd when the ‘bottle’ breaks loose into the hilltop meadow full of ice-cream vans, pushchairs, picnics and ambulances.

   • 2012, Jacqueline Wilson, Four Children and It, Puffin Books, →ISBN, page 287:

     Maudie must have thought of her dropped ice cream yesterday, because she clamoured desperately for a Whippy when she saw an ice-cream van on the way to the woods, but Alice wouldn’t hear of it.

   • 2014, Chanelle Hayes, Anna Pointer, Chanelle Hayes: Baring My Heart, John Blake, →ISBN, page 11:

     And if I ever heard an ice-cream van chiming nearby, I’d drop everything and beg, ‘Ice peam – want one!’