lollipop

noun

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lol·li·pop | \ ˈlä-lē-ˌpäp

, ˈlä-li- \

variants: or less commonly lollypop

plural lollipops also 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 One circuit to try uses the Cockscomb, Dawa, OK and Arizona Cypress trails for an interesting lollipop loop. — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 3 June 2021 Once people walked in, adolescents were directed to several stations around the room, seated, given their first dose by a health professional and then were offered a lollipop after a Band-Aid was placed on their arm. — Kristen Griffith, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 19 May 2021 Anyway, Mark Burnett's kids were there visiting on the island and his daughter, an adorable kid of maybe 6 or something was sitting nearby, out of camera range, licking a lollipop. — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 30 Apr. 2021 Plus, kids can get a non-infected lollipop after their vaccine is done. — Nina Shapiro, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021 And a small, but noticeably charming, retro detail is the reintroduction of the lollipop design from 1959 on the central-seconds hand on the stainless steel editions. — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 23 Mar. 2021 Sill posed with a lollipop in her mouth — her favorite way to be photographed. — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2021 Jolie Ngo’s Girl With Fans is a blobby, rippled vessel with lollipop-like piercings and fins that appears to be oozing with glaze. — Diana Budds, Curbed, 6 Mar. 2021 Before the virus attacks, the spike protein looks like a lollipop, left, called the pre-fusion state. — USA Today, 5 Mar. 2021

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