lollipop

/'lɔlipɔp/

Thân thiện

A child happily licks a red lollipop in the park.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A hard candy on a stick: A type of sweet, typically a hard, flavored sugar candy, that is attached to the end of a stick for holding.
   • Ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick: A frozen dessert, such as ice cream or a flavored ice, served on a stick.
   • (British English) A popsicle: In British English, a frozen flavored ice on a stick is often called an "ice lolly" or simply a "lolly."

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The child happily sucked on a red lollipop.
  • On a hot day, she bought a lemon-flavored lollipop from the ice cream truck.
  • In England, children love to eat an ice lolly in the summer.

Advanced Usage

• "Lollipop man/lady" (British English): A colloquial term for a school crossing guard, who carries a stop sign on a pole that resembles a large lollipop.
  • The lollipop lady helps the children cross the road safely every morning.

Variants and Related Words

• Lolly (n, chiefly British): An informal term for a lollipop, especially a frozen one.
  • Can I have a lolly, please?
• Sucker (n, chiefly North American): A common synonym for a lollipop.
  • He got a grape sucker from the bank teller.

Synonyms

• Candy on a stick: A descriptive synonym.
• Popsicle (North American): Specifically for the frozen dessert on a stick.
• Ice lolly (British): Specifically for the frozen dessert on a stick.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• "Like a lollipop": Used to describe something that is easy to take or obtain, often in a trivializing context.
  • Winning that game was like taking a lollipop from a baby. (Implies it was very easy.)

Học thuật

Noun

1. hard candy on a stick
2. ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick
   • in England a popsicle is called an ice lolly

Từ đồng nghĩa

• sucker
• all-day sucker
• ice lolly
• lolly
• popsicle