rock candy

noun

1. sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.

rock candy

noun

1. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): rock. a hard candy, typically a long brightly-coloured peppermint-flavoured stick, sold esp in holiday resorts

Word History and Origins

Origin of rock candy¹

First recorded in 1715–25

Example Sentences

I’m sitting there listening — that’s the reason the intro’s so long, because I was just waiting — and finally I start singing, “You’re rock candy, baby — hard, sweet and sticky.”

From Los Angeles Times

For birthdays, she baked themed cakes from scratch using Jackson’s toys to create dinosaur cakes and rock candies for Kensington’s “Frozen” cakes.

From Washington Post

In the 1870s, a reporter from The Sun, a New York newspaper, quoted a politician as swearing by a diet of rye whiskey cut with rock candy to stave off tuberculosis.

From New York Times

In “The Bitter Truth,” Evanescence continues to own the space where frosty electronic currents collide with volcanic surges of metal catharsis and coagulate into hard rock candy.

From Los Angeles Times

The tart fruit lingered on the palate like rock candy.

From Seattle Times