Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A confection consisting of a piece of hard candy attached to the end of a small stick.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
lollypop .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Archaic A kind of sugar confection which dissolves easily in the mouth.
- noun A piece of hard candy, often of discoid shape, attached to the end of a handle of wood or hard paper by which it is held in the hand while being licked; -- it is popular with small children.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
confectionery consisting of a piece ofcandy /sweet attached to astick .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick
- noun hard candy on a stick
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As we know from the recent Serge Gainsbourg biopic, lollipop is French slang for an act of fellatio.
Ashley Young has a turn of phrase to go with the tricks Harry Pearson 2010
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She has dropped from a normal-sized woman to what, you know, you call a lollipop syndrome, that very thin body with a large head that looks either anorexic or that she ` s bulimic.
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A poopie-flavored lollipop is a potentially useful item if your goal is to catch flies.
A Shovelful of Salt, Part II: Trigger Weight and Gun Safety 2006
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Actiq, which is meant to be taken for cancer pain, comes in an oral lozenge formulation, also referred to as a lollipop.
Boeing Workers Arrested in Drug Raid Peter Loftus 2011
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Last year, a correspondent, interviewing a woman who was raising a capuchin monkey as her daughter, gave the monkey a lollipop, which is definitely one way to butter up a source.
Slate Magazine 2009
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Remember that story about editor Anna Wintour (herself a "lollipop" who's all head atop scrawn) telling Oprah she had to lose 20 pounds before she could be on the cover of Vogue a few years ago?
Elaine Liner: Oprah Hits 2-0-0: Media Say "Oh, No, No!" 2009
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By the 1960s, however, Americans 'concept of the ideal rose had become -- as Danielle Hahn, who runs Rose Story Farm, describes it -- "the long-stemmed grocery store' lollipop 'with a perfect shape, devoid of any fragrance and that never opens. "
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Remember that story about editor Anna Wintour (herself a "lollipop" who's all head atop scrawn) telling Oprah she had to lose 20 pounds before she could be on the cover of Vogue a few years ago?
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Built as an art museum for the A&P heir Huntington Hartford, the building curved around Columbus Circle on a cramped site; it had no windows except for little portholes cut into the corners of its 10-story white marble façade; it sat on slender columns, each topped with a disc of dark marble, which earned it the name the "lollipop" building.
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Fentanyl now comes in a "lollipop" form called Actiq.
sonofgroucho commented on the word lollipop
We had a cat called this once.
June 27, 2007
oroboros commented on the word lollipop
Lollipop lollipop, oh lolly lolly lolly, lollipop, lollipop, oh lolly lolly lolly...LOLLIPOP! Badoom, badoom, badoom, badoom, badoom...
June 27, 2007
reesetee commented on the word lollipop
National Lollipop Day: July 20.
November 8, 2007
sionnach commented on the word lollipop
Oh, the fun they'll have at the lollipop factory!
November 8, 2007
treeseed commented on the word lollipop
A lollipop, pop, lolly, sucker, dum-dum,or sticky-pop is a type of confectionery consisting mainly of hardened, flavored sucrose with corn syrup mounted on a stick and intended for sucking or licking. They are available in many flavors and shapes.
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January 25, 2008
treeseed commented on the word lollipop
My Boy Lollipop, Millie Small, 1964
February 9, 2008