root beer float

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   an ice-cream soda made with ice cream floating in root beer

   Broaderice-cream soda

Questions about root beer float

What does root beer float mean?

root beer float means "an ice-cream soda made with ice cream floating in root beer".

Is root beer float a common word?

root beer float is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.