Coney Island

• (noun, hot dog): coney island

From Dutch Konijneneiland (konijnen + eiland) 'island of rabbits'; equivalent to 'cony island'.

Coney Island

1. A specific 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.

• Coney Island hot dog
• Coney Island whitefish

Coney Island (plural Coney Islands)

1. A 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 and 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."