lollipopn.
/ˈlɒlɪpɒp/, U.S. /ˈlɑliˌpɑp/ colloquial.
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a. dialect. The name of a particular kind of sweetmeat, consisting chiefly of sugar or treacle, that dissolves easily in the mouth; plural (formerly also collective singular) sweetmeats in general.
b. Now, a sweet or water-ice on stick.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > lollipop
lulibubc1710
sucker1823
lolly1935
lollipop1953
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > water-ice > ice-lolly
popsicle1923
fudgsicle1938
ice block1948
iced lolly1949
ice lolly1949
pop1951
lollipop1953
paleta1957
1784 London Chron. 17–20 Jan. 72/3 She confessed..that a certain person..had enticed her to commit it [sc. the robbery], and given her sweetmeats, called lolly-pops.
1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Lollipops, sweet lozenges purchased by children.
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 52 And buy..Crisp parliament with lollypops.
1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful I. i. 6 That in the petticoat age we may fearlessly indulge in lollipop.
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. i. ix. 102 The irreclaimable and hopeless votary of lollypop.
1860 All Year Round 10 Mar. 459 Upright glass~cases such as country dealers keep lollypops in.
1884 G. A. Sala Journey due South (1887) i. xv. 205 The consumption of lollipops [was] phenomenal.
1944 W. de la Mare Coll. Rhymes & Verses 41 A bottle of lollipops loved by Bess Stood apart on a window shelf.
1953 C. T. Williams Chocolate & Confectionery vi. 104 The B.C.H. Hollow Sleeve Drop Roller Machine may be augmented by a special attachment for the production of lollipops.
1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 401 He is as pretentious as a rich whore, as sentimental as a lollypop.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 165 Cornet, Brick, and Lollipop Taste very nice when bought from the shop.
1965 D. F. Hutton & E. M. Bode Simple Sweetmaking iv. 39 The lollipops have wax or cellophane paper twisted or tied round them.
c. figurative. ‘Luscious’ literary composition. Also, a showy or non-serious performance.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > a performance > other types
début1751
vehicle1785
benefit1802
showpiece1810
ticket-night1812
yatra1827
command1839
lollipopa1849
party piece1851
roadshow1874
one-night stand1878
stand1878
one-man show1879
small1886
command performance1897
ticket benefit1898
frivol1903
run-through1905
pre-production1906
riot1909
one-nighter1916
gala performance1932
improv1953
warm-up1958
workshopping1966
impro1979
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > embellishment > ornate and rapid composition
syllabub1706
lollipopa1849
a1849 [see Compounds 1].
1856 T. Cholmondeley Let. in Atlantic Monthly (1893) LXXII. 750/2 There is no poetry, and very little or no literature. We are drenched with mawkish lollipops, and clothed in tawdry rags.
1972 Times 3 July 12/2 Colin Carr chose, mistakenly for a student, a lollipop, a Popper Polonaise, rather than good red meat, but it served to show off an enviable fluency on the instrument.
d. A circular sign on a pole held up to stop traffic so that children may cross the road.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > traffic control > sign carried by children's crossing patrol
lollipop1969
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > traffic control > person who controls traffic > children's traffic patrol person
lollipop man1959
lollipop woman1959
lollipop1969
1969 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 23 June 7/7 Civilian wardens to supervise school crossings..were used extensively overseas, and were known as ‘lollipops’ from the big discs on long poles they used to control vehicular traffic through school crossings.
1970 Sunday Times 25 Jan. 13 Mr. Blackmore, holding the lollipop that stops most traffic, said, ‘That offside brake seems to be pulling.’
Compounds
C1. attributive, as lollipop shop, lollipop stall, etc.
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1834 A. W. Fonblanque in Examiner 6 Apr. 209/1 The Bishop of London..has reckoned up lollipop stalls, and numbered green-grocers.
1845 W. M. Thackeray Legends of Rhine ix, in G. Cruikshank's Table-bk. Sept. 193 Ask the youth whether the lollypop-shop does not attract him?
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxiii. 197 Marching with great dignity towards the stall of a neighbouring lollipop-woman.
a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) II. 32 His [Dryden's] lolly-pop adulteration of King Lear.
1952 J. Masefield So Long to Learn 203 Many of the speakers were of a kind that I called ‘lollipop-speakers’: they spoke every kind of verse as if it were a caramel to be sucked, without any glimmering of a notion that the words had any meaning.
1958 Times 16 Oct. 4/6 His [Beecham's] reluctance to offer ‘lollipop’ encores.
1959 Punch 16 Sept. 172/2 That will be no more than the ‘lollipop’ innings of a Compton, the once-in-a-while reappearance of a Cotton or a Kyle.
1962 Spectator 13 Apr. 463/2 What will inevitably be known as the ‘lollipop’ tax.
1970 P. Villiard Pract. Candymaking Cookbk. v. 62 I am going to start your candymaking career off with some recipes for lollipops... You will need a supply of lollipop sticks.
C2. lollipop woman, lollipop man, etc.: a person using a circular sign on a pole to stop traffic so that children may cross the road. lollipop sign,etc.: such a pole.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > traffic control > person who controls traffic > children's traffic patrol person
lollipop man1959
lollipop woman1959
lollipop1969
1959 Courier & Advertiser (Dundee) 28 Mar. 5/6 These old people, commonly called ‘lollipop men’,..do a good job.
1960 S. Potter Lang. in Mod. World iv. 49 The traffic warden (or lollipop-man as the children affectionately call him) in his white overall makes himself prominent by raising his red disk on high: ‘Stop, children crossing.’
1969 Sunday Times 9 Mar. 5 Top-hatted they stream from the school, one boy picks up the lollipop sign—which is hidden in a bush—and traffic is brought to a halt.
1971 Daily Tel. 27 July 13/1 (heading) Drivers must stop for lollipop men.
1971 Daily Tel. 27 July 13/1 Drivers stopped at school crossings by lollipop patrols must not proceed until the ‘Stop, children crossing’ sign has been taken away.
1972 Sat. Titbits 21 Oct. 20/1 Outside the school a ‘lollipop lady’ was holding up the traffic.
1972 Times 16 Dec. 12/2 We were on the lollipop patrol escorting the kids when they all scattered.
1973 Daily Tel. 16 Mar. (Colour Suppl.) 9/4 They watch the children in and out of school, something which on the mainland is done by a single elderly man with a ‘lollipop stick’.
Derivatives
ˈlollipop v. (transitive) to treat to lollipops.
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1837 Fraser's Mag. 15 337 Mere children in matters of taste, fit only to be lollypopped by his ‘lady’.
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