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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A confection consisting of a piece of hard candy attached to the end of a small stick.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See lollypop.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A confectionery consisting of a piece of candy/sweet attached to a stick.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Archaic A kind of sugar confection which dissolves easily in the mouth.
  2. n. 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.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick
  2. n. hard candy on a stick

Etymologies

  1. Perhaps dialectal lolly, tongue (from loll, to dangle the tongue) + pop1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “As we know from the recent Serge Gainsbourg biopic, lollipop is French slang for an act of fellatio.”

    The Guardian: Ashley Young has a turn of phrase to go with the tricks

  • “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.”

    CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2009

  • “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

  • “Actiq, which is meant to be taken for cancer pain, comes in an oral lozenge formulation, also referred to as a lollipop.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Boeing Workers Arrested in Drug Raid

  • “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

  • “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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  • “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. ”

    The Wall Street Journal: The Sweet Smell of Success

  • “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.”

    Newsweek: Love the New Skin You’re In

  • “Fentanyl now comes in a "lollipop" form called Actiq.”

    Newsweek: Taking A New Look At Pain

  • “Greenberg's simple "lollipop" story has begun to unravel; in an interview with American Photo magazine for example, she describes how frustrating it was to have parents "step out of the studio for a couple minutes" in vain attempts to make children cry who would not otherwise oblige.”

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  • treeseed My Boy Lollipop, Millie Small, 1964 Feb 9, 2008

  • treeseed 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.
    _Wikipedia Jan 24, 2008

  • sionnach Oh, the fun they'll have at the lollipop factory! Nov 8, 2007

  • reesetee National Lollipop Day: July 20. Nov 8, 2007

  • oroboros Lollipop lollipop, oh lolly lolly lolly, lollipop, lollipop, oh lolly lolly lolly...LOLLIPOP! Badoom, badoom, badoom, badoom, badoom... Jun 27, 2007

  • sonofgroucho We had a cat called this once. Jun 27, 2007

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