Definition of penny candy
: inexpensive candy originally costing a penny apiece
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Every kid had to go to Ellicott’s Country Store for penny candy from Miss Enalee.
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McGhee said one of her earliest memories as a black girl was being chased from a penny candy store by a white store manager.
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For decades, the building on the corner of 21st Avenue South and Stevens Street was a grocery store — an honest-to-goodness corner grocery where longtime neighbors still remember going for cigarettes and penny candy.
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First Known Use of penny candy
circa 1940
PENNY CANDY Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of penny candy for English Language Learners
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: candy that costs only a few pennies for each piece
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