rock candy

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rock candy

A hard confection that is made by cooling a concentrated sugar syrup into large clear crystals, often around a piece of string or a stick.

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rock candy

(Cookery) US and Canadian a hard candy, typically a long brightly-coloured peppermint-flavoured stick, sold esp in holiday resorts. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): rock

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rock′ can′dy

sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.

[1715–25]

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Noun	1.	rock candy - hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint) rock candy, confect - a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
	2.	rock candy - sugar in large hard clear crystals on a string candy, confect - a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts

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