lollipop
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iˌpɒp noun
a piece of hard candy attached to the end of a small stick that is held in the hand while the candy is licked.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a boiled sweet or toffee stuck on a small wooden stick |
| 2. | (Brit) another word for ice lolly |
| [C18: perhaps from Northern English dialect lolly the tongue (compare | |
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Lollipop
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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Word Origin & History
lollipop
1784, lolly-pops "sweetmeats, soft candy," perhaps related to loll "to dangle" (the tongue) + pop "strike, slap." Or the first element may be northern dial. lolly "the tongue." Meaning "hard candy on a stick" is from 1920s.
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Example sentences
Believe me if you had my kind of day, a lollipop could make your day.
The tiny faces shared the same arced hairline, full chin, lollipop cheeks.
It was not a tree planted by modern civilization and then cropped down into a lollipop shape.
The silver pole shrinks to a lollipop stick in his giant hand, his blue gym bag thuds to the floor.
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