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  • noun Plural form of coughdrop.

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Examples

  • “We must issue the necessary orders,” said the one who was rustling a bag of coughdrops.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • A ring of keys, a few sugarless coughdrops, about $8 in coins mostly dollars, a wallet, a couple of notes of things to do that I keep forgetting to read, an inhaler.

    Blathering Lockdown: Day Three « Whatever 2008

  • I owe it all to blogging, anxiety, regret, overcommitment, insufficient sleep, and a well-rounded diet of Diet Coke, taquitos, Peanut M&Ms, and Fisherman's Friend coughdrops.

    BatesLine: April 2005 Archives 2005

  • I owe it all to blogging, anxiety, regret, overcommitment, insufficient sleep, and a well-rounded diet of Diet Coke, taquitos, Peanut M&Ms, and Fisherman's Friend coughdrops.

    Reaching a new low - BatesLine 2005

  • Well, that's what happens when your nose is stuffed up and your living off of coughdrops. oOoOo ... how I hate them.

    krazililme Diary Entry krazililme 2003

  • "Nasty cough," Mrs. Quoad offering a tin of that least believable of English coughdrops, the Meggezone.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • Tying up broken collar-bones in Newmarket was as regular as dispensing coughdrops.

    Bonecrack Francis, Dick 1971

  • The practice, it seems to me, can be explained without having recourse to the all-pervading sexual instinct (usually understood to regulate every action performed by women, from the buttoning of boots to the swallowing of coughdrops).

    Marriage as a Trade 1909

  • " Sissy painting her nails so that they were a blizzard of cherry coughdrops when she hitched from room to room.

    Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

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