gumdrop

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  1. noun A small candy made of sweetened, colored, and flavored gum arabic or gelatin and often coated with sugar.

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  • The demoness became as small as a gumdrop, and he put her in his mouth. —  Question Quest
  • It was as he remembered it, roughly pyramidal in shape, not unlike a gumdrop, only now the summit was completely gouged off, leaving a bare, concave scar. —  FSF,June2008
  • She would bury the aspirin tablet in the gumdrop, open her mouth wide, put her head back, pop the gumdrop in and swallow it. —  115 - The Fiery Menace
  • Mine was a gumdrop-shaped capsule, about twenty feet in diameter at its heat shield, that bore a faint resemblance to the moonships of historic times. —  Asimov'sSF,October-November2007
  • I have two iMac 600 Mhz. gumdrop computers running 10.2 that work great for surfing the net, playing music on iTunes and general things in Appleworks. —  Apple Matters
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