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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A round piece of hard tart candy.

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  • noun US A hard candy.

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  • noun round piece of tart hard candy

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Examples

  • Lindemans Framboise, which is made with raspberries and a mouth-puckering strain of wild yeast, can be called an adult version of a sourball candy: a richly sweet-and-sour concoction.

    Gregory Daurer: Imagine a Great Beer City 2009

  • Another favorite is the “chamoy” which is also tamarind-based with a substantial amount of dried chile pepper added, that is the equivalent of a sourball for local kids.

    The Allure of the Savory Popsicle - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Rourke was a very pale man with a sallow face that gave the impression he was sucking on a sourball.

    The Concrete Blonde Connelly, Michael, 1956- 1994

  • Rourke was a very pale man with a sallow face that gave the impression he was sucking on a sourball.

    The Black Echo Connelly, Michael, 1956- 1992

  • Ralph Addington degenerated into what Honey described as "the human sourball."

    Angel Island Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921

  • The rest threw themselves on the man with sourball and were for tearing off his outer garments and forcing on his sweater, but Lyman by some occult means of his own got the boy aside.

    Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University Will Irwin 1910

  • Peter Woit is a sourball without a glimpse of creativity who only spreads bad mood and confused, superficial propaganda.

    The Reference Frame 2010

  • It's why Bryant walks out for pregame introductions with his teammates as if he's sucking on a sourball.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2010

  • Here's a look at the men of Big Brother 12, ranging from two married men, one college slacker, two guys who hope to lie and be underestimated and a gay college professor who compares himself to a sourball in a metaphor laced with sexual innuendo, intentional or not.

    BuddyTV 2010

  • Špidla in 2003 and demonstrated that Špidla was a sourball.

    The Reference Frame 2010

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