lollipop
noun/ˈlɒlipɒp/
/ˈlɑːlipɑːp/
(also British English, informal lolly)
(also North American English, informal sucker)
- a hard round or flat sweet made of boiled sugar on a small stickTopics Foodc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryLollipop is used before these nouns:
- lady
Word Originlate 18th cent.: perhaps from dialect lolly ‘tongue’ + pop (verb).Definitions on the go
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