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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Unrefined or incompletely refined sugar that still retains some molasses, which gives it a brownish color.
  • noun A commercial product made by the addition of molasses to white sugar.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Sugar which has been only partially refined and still contains molasses.
  • noun Refined sugar to which molasses has been added.
  • noun Street name for heroin.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun unrefined or only partly refined sugar

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