lollipop

/ˈlɒlipɒp/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈlɑːlipɑːp/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈlä-lē-ˌpäp ˈlä-li-/ (ame, mw)

lollipop — noun

  • lollipopsingular
  • lollipopsplural

1. a hard sweet attached to a small stick that you hold while you lick or suck it

1.名詞A2
釋義

a hard sweet attached to a small stick that you hold while you lick or suck it

例句

Dimitri handed his little sister a bright red lollipop after her doctor's visit.

give/hand someone a lollipop — often as a reward

Keiko bought a strawberry lollipop from the corner shop on her walk home.

同義詞
  • sucker

    American English; more common in the US for the same candy-on-a-stick meaning

  • candy

    much broader term; a lollipop is just one specific kind of candy

  • sweet

    British English; covers all sugary treats, not only lollipops

2. a song, a film, a book, or another creative work that pushes sweetness so hard i

2.名詞C1
釋義

a song, a film, a book, or another creative work that pushes sweetness so hard it ends up feeling false and silly

例句

Zeynep turned off the radio, calling the love song a sugary lollipop.

call something a lollipop — figurative criticism

The critic called the film's happy ending a lollipop that felt completely false.

同義詞
  • tearjerker

    focuses on making the audience cry; lollipop focuses on sugary, fake sweetness

  • schmaltz

    Yiddish borrowing for excessive sentimentality in art; stronger and more formal-sounding than lollipop

用法筆記

Distinguish from sense 1 (CANDY ON A STICK). This figurative sense is always negative and describes creative works — music, films, or stories — not actual food. Often used with 'call' or 'describe as'.

常見錯誤

❌I ate a lollipop movie last night.
✅The movie was a lollipop
💡too sweet and completely fake.' — Sense 2 is figurative; you cannot eat it. Use it to describe something, not as a physical object.