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? Earlier form of lollipop, n.
colloquial (originally local). A sweet, a ‘suck’. Also spec. (chiefly North American), a lollipop; all-day sucker: see all-day, adj.
A sweetmeat (chiefly Australian and New Zealand). Elsewhere now usually = lollipop, n. b.
Now, a sweet or water-ice on stick.