lollipop

noun

lol·li·pop | \ ˈlä-lē-ˌpäp

, ˈlä-li-\

variants: or less commonly lollypop

plural lollipops or lollypops

Definition of lollipop

1a : a piece of hard candy on the end of a stick

b : a piece of food served on the end of a stick a chicken lollipop cake lollipops

2 or lollipop sign, British : a round stop sign on a pole used to stop traffic (as at a school crossing) Darlington inventor Andrew Turner created a prototype for an illuminated lollipop for school crossing patrols.— Mark Copping

Examples of lollipop in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The chicken lollipops are like an upsized version of popcorn chicken and impossible to stop eating. — Max Falkowitz, New York Times, "A Day at Queens Farm (and the Restaurants You Should Dig Into Afterward)," 5 June 2019 One summer day last year, Timothy Bromage, a paleoanthropologist at New York University, was chewing on a lollipop lamb chop while vacationing in Cyprus. — Quanta Magazine, "Teeth May Reveal a Multi-Day Biological Clock," 13 Dec. 2016 No topping is too extreme or unwieldy — slices of cake, doughnuts and oversized lollipops are as commonplace as maraschino cherries. — Leeanne Griffin, courant.com, "Six extreme Connecticut milkshakes that are perfectly Instagrammable," 7 June 2019 Over the years, Maren attended conventions and Oz reunions with a giant lollipop in tow. — Amanda Jackson, CNN, "Jerry Maren, the last surviving munchkin from 'The Wizard of Oz,' dies at 98," 6 June 2018 The megamogul, 37, posted the ad for Flat Tummy’s lollipops on Tuesday, and by early Wednesday morning, the photo had been deleted. — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, "Kim Kardashian West Slammed for Promoting Appetite-Suppressing Lollipops," 16 May 2018 The half-digital, half-analog sign is lollipop-shaped with a glowing outer ring. — Liz Stinson, Curbed, "The ‘For Sale’ sign gets a modern update," 19 July 2018 But even better than her expression and the lollipops are her hair accessories — three (3) metal clips. — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, "Ariana Grande Is Bringing Back a ’90s Hair Accessory," 26 June 2018 Kardashian captioned a photo of her sucking the lollipop. — Fox News, "Kim Kardashian slammed for promoting 'appetite suppressant' lollipops," 17 May 2018

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