Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Candy made in the form of sticks.
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Examples
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From a pedestal of boxes fairly bulging with red-wheeled go-carts, one keen young elbow rammed for balance into a gay glassy shelf of stick-candy, green tissue garlands tickling across her cheek, she sped the message to her mother.
Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915
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Oh, ay! I've knowed Pinch-a-Penny to drop the price of stick-candy when he had put the price of flour too high for anybody's comfort.
Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. Norman Duncan 1893
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-- red-and-white stick-candy of the variety that she had often seen selling at street corners (out of show-cases that went on wheels).
The Poor Little Rich Girl Eleanor Gates 1913
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"Well, I'll tell you now that he didn't," was the answer, "nor for a pocketful of red stick-candy which he took from a jar.
Dixie Hart 1888
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