Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A confection consisting of a piece of hard candy attached to the end of a small stick.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See lollypop.
Wiktionary
- n. A confectionery consisting of a piece of candy/sweet attached to a stick.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Archaic A kind of sugar confection which dissolves easily in the mouth.
- 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
- n. ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick
- n. hard candy on a stick
Etymologies
- 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.”
“A poopie-flavored lollipop is a potentially useful item if your goal is to catch flies.”
“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.”
“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?”
“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. ”
“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.”
“Fentanyl now comes in a "lollipop" form called Actiq.”
“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.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lollipop’.
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•Open List: Songboys
Inspired by gangerh's extremely addictive list songbirds, this is the same type list, but for male names. Same rules apply:
Names of boys in song titles. Not in the lyrics, just in the title...jack, jesse, jakey, john, arthur, nick, donald, bill, billy, gideon, riley, charlie and 95 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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confectionary
lollies sweets
caramel gets 48 hits
chocolate gets 112 hits
nonpareil 83 hitstaffy, alcorza, chew, chocolate, confectionary, lolly, sweets, blackball, bonbon, brickle, bubblegum, cachou and 137 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Cute
My boyfriend and I started this list my Junior or Senior year of High school. It hasn't been added to in a while. It was a list of words that we thought sounded universally cute or had universal as...
cupcake, doilee, mitten, kitten, squiggle, button, cheek, papoose, pupa, sleep, cookie, treat and 45 more...
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O.o
Things that give you a warm fuzzy sort of feeling.
crumpet, cream puff, bubbles, packed lunch, prezzies, stars, pillow, rain, old books, sheep, bikkie, lollipop and 41 more...
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There's a sucker born every minute
Confections to sweeten the breath.
dragée, cachou, betel, chew, chaw, gum, bubblegum, gumball, mint, peppermint, mint imperial, after dinner mint and 21 more...
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Songs Named After Food
raspberry beret, pineapple jam, on top of spaghetti, yes, we have no b..., don't sit under t..., sugar, sugar, strawberry fields..., catfish, glass onion, honey pie, lady marmalade, no sugar tonight and 70 more...
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The sweetest thing.
A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down!
sugary, sweetness, fragrant, cloying, saccharine, honey, luscious, nectar, pudding, pastry, bittersweet, cupcake and 44 more...
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Color Words for Shoes
Vendors can get oddly creative.
amaranth, brindle, iguana, slate black, madder brown, bison, pinecone, seal brown, forest night, burnt orange, monument, beet red and 399 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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Flutter
tuberose, golden apple, apple cider, unicorn, extraordinary, Pleiades, Merope, speckle, glitter, rose, pitter-pat, whale and 314 more...
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kimo2000's Words
pakalolo, miliated, voodoo, vindaloo, hacienda, acquiesce, addlepated, olio, akimbo, apropos, oogenesis, arugula and 181 more...
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i don't like cricket, i love it
Words without which cricket could not be.
keeper, stumper, bad light stopped..., wicket keeper, rain stopped play, sight screen, bodyline, leg bye, duck, duckworth-lewis, t20, one-day game and 245 more...
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katiad's Words
exquisite, obnoxious, noxious, extravaganza, whirlwind, whirling, wild, spinster, existential, chaos, zephyr, blasphemy and 310 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for lollipop.

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