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LOL-eep-op/ˈlɒlipɒp/

A lollipop is a hard sweet on a stick. Countable: a lollipop, lollipops; informal: a lolly. An ice lolly is frozen ice on a stick, not a hard sweet. Write one word: lollipop.

Meaning

A hard sweet on a stick.

Examples

• “The child is sucking a lollipop.”
• “The lollipop is cherry flavour.”
• “Do not run with a lollipop in your mouth.”

Good to know

a lollipop / a lolly. Contrast: ice lolly (frozen). One word. Hard sweet + stick.

Near in meaning

lolly

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