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candy

/ˈkændi/
noun
  1. Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.

  2. A piece of confectionery of this kind.

  3. (slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine.

Synonymsconfectionery, lollies, sugar candy, sweet, lolly, sweet
verb
  1. To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.

  2. To have sugar crystals form in or on.

    "Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time."

  3. To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

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