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- noun A
small size for acontainer ofgoods .
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Examples
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The term “Fun Size” is trademarked, there was a lawsuit over it, and Mars once owned the trademark to “Fun,” too
"Fun Size" Candy Bar History: Lawsuits Were Involved Ernie Smith 2025
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While, yes, it might technically be more fun for you to consume a regular sized candy bar—or even more fun to consume a giant, king size candy bar—“fun size” refers to the small, individually wrapped candies that get handed out at Halloween to trick-or-treaters. Plus, let’s be real, small, cute versions of regular-sized things are inherently pretty fun.
What Does Fun Size Mean in the Candy World? | Sporked Matt Crowley 2023
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1968 Fun Size SNICKERS is created, followed by an increase in satisfaction levels worldwide.
Our Story 2023
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Those are minitures/minis, not fun size, thats a completely different size and type of candy. Fun sized are still for sale.
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In 1968, Mars discontinued its "junior" size candy product and came out with a larger size of small, individually wrapped, multiple packed branded candy bars. These bars were intermediate in size between the old "junior" bars and the traditional size bars sold over the counter by Mars. It adopted the words fun size to describe this new category.
November 9, 2015