Definition of "ice-cream soda" []

• A refreshment consisting of scoops of ice cream in a mixture of soda water and syrup. (noun)

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• "He was incapable of speech, mumbled his order, looked anxiously at the clock, despatched his ice-cream soda in tremendous haste, and was gone."
• ""Well, I was whisperin 'it'd be a good idea if you could dig up a gentleman friend - for her" (indicating her companion), "and then, we could go off an 'have ice-cream soda somewhere, or coffee, or anything.""