hard candy

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noun
  1. candy, often fruit flavored, made by boiling together sugar and corn syrup.

Origin of hard candy

1
First recorded in 1920–25

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How to use hard candy in a sentence

  • Back in the day, babysitting meant doling out some hard candy and popping a Disney flick into the VCR.

    The Gangsta Grannies of YouTube | The Daily Beast Video | December 8, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • "They tell me at the candy store that very hard candy doesn't last well," she said.

  • We should never crack nuts, crush hard candy, or bite off stout thread with the teeth.

    A Practical Physiology | Albert F. Blaisdell
  • They started with the smallest children and gave each one of them one orange and one sack of hard candy.

    Frying Pan Farm | Elizabeth Brown Pryor
  • They are a small, hard candy, and being thrown with vicious emphasis, they rattled upon the bare floor like bullets.

    The Debtor | Mary E. Wilkins Freeman