hard candy

noun

1. candy, often fruit flavored, made by boiling together sugar and corn syrup.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hard candy¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

Back in the day, babysitting meant doling out some hard candy and popping a Disney flick into the VCR.

From The Daily Beast

"They tell me at the candy store that very hard candy doesn't last well," she said.

From Project Gutenberg

We should never crack nuts, crush hard candy, or bite off stout thread with the teeth.

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They started with the smallest children and gave each one of them one orange and one sack of hard candy.

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They are a small, hard candy, and being thrown with vicious emphasis, they rattled upon the bare floor like bullets.

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The snow cooled it at once, and turned it into clear, hard candy.

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