Lollipop

Quick meaning: Lollipop is a noun meaning An item of confectionery consisting of a piece of candy or sweet attached to a stick.

Meaning

An item of confectionery consisting of a piece of candy or sweet attached to a stick.

More Meanings

1. Something having the shape of a lollipop: a linear stem connected to a round body.
2. (motor racing) A sign on a stick held in front of the vehicle during a pit stop.
3. (horticulture) To prune the lower branches of a tree or other plant so that new growth appears only at the top, where more light is received.

Example Sentences

Mount Pleasant itself is a lollipop trail. Walking along the handle of the lollipop is a breeze—the perfect warm-up for the uphill climb at the beginning of the loop.

The gene III proteins appear as five lollipops protruding from the end of the phage, and these “balls” can be removed by treatment of the phage with subtilisin, rendering the phage noninfectious.

The reasons for this containment of gated communities and private streets are not to be sought in morphology (suburban residential developments with lollipops and dead ends are common in France), but rather in local practices by residents.

Word Forms

• lollipops
• lolli-pop
• lollypop
• lolly pop
• lolly-pop
• lollipopping
• lollipopped

Synonyms for lollipop

Depending on context, synonyms include lolly, sucker, lasso, semiloop, popsicle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include popsicle, lolly, sucker, candy, marshmallow, pacifier.

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