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LOLLIPOP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lollipop mean? 

LOLLIPOP (noun)
  The noun LOLLIPOP has 2 senses:

1. ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stickplay

2. hard candy on a stickplay

  Familiarity information: LOLLIPOP used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LOLLIPOP (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

ice lolly; lollipop; lolly; popsicle

Context example:

in England a popsicle is called an ice lolly

Hypernyms ("lollipop" is a kind of...):

frozen dessert (any of various desserts prepared by freezing)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Hard candy on a stick

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

all-day sucker; lollipop; sucker

Hypernyms ("lollipop" is a kind of...):

candy; confect (a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts)


 Context examples 


A lollipop is a lozenge on a stick.

(Lozenge Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Co-workers may have lollipops and candy canes dancing in their heads, but not you—you will be concentrating on tasks that have to be done. That’s fine!

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



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