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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lolly
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ice lolly
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ice
▪ And Pendleton's managers are hopeful their sales will continue to soar when their famous Twicer ice lolly is relaunched next week.
▪ The plant now sends ice lollies all over the world.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And Pendleton's managers are hopeful their sales will continue to soar when their famous Twicer ice lolly is relaunched next week.
▪ It was a substitute act which brought the lolly.
▪ Now the company is making more than 200,000 lollies a week and staff have been placed on overtime to cope with extra demand.
▪ The plant now sends ice lollies all over the world.
▪ Three giant production centres on 75 acres of land making 254 different varieties of ice creams and lollies.
▪ We see another bunch of outdoor reporters huddled into their coat collars, clutching mikes like they were chocolate lollies.
▪ We use 42 thousand miles of wrapping paper a year. 218 million lolly sticks a year.
▪ Wipe the apples and push lolly sticks into them.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lolly

1854, short for lollipop. In 20c. British slang, also "money."

Wiktionary
lolly

n. 1 A piece of hard candy on a stick; a lollipop. 2 (context UK slang uncountable English) money. 3 (context Australia New Zealand English) Any confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a sweet, a piece of candy.

WordNet
lolly
  1. n. informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]

  2. ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick; "in England a popsicle is called an ice lolly" [syn: ice lolly, lollipop, popsicle]

Wikipedia
Lolly (singer)

Lolly (born Anna Shantha Kumble, 27 June 1977, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham) is a British pop star, TV presenter and actress.

Lolly

Lolly may refer to:

Lolly (song)

"Lolly" is a song by American recording artist and record producer Maejor Ali (also known as Bei Maejor). The song, released as a single on September 17, 2013, features vocals from American rapper Juicy J and Canadian singer Justin Bieber. The song peaked 19 on the US Billboard 100 chart.

Usage examples of "lolly".

The only time their drink was varied was during the warm winter days when the flowers from the desert oak, a type of grevillea, were picked and soaked in coolamons of water to make a sweet drink like cordial or lolly water.

I owe much to many wonderful people: Chris Keeslar and everyone at Dorchester Publishing, cover artist John Ennis, Romance Writers of America, Laurie Gold, Carolyn Stahl, Laura Novak, Pamela Fryer, the Lollies, Catherine Asaro, the paranormal romance listserve, the staff at Harley Davidson motorcycles in Rocklin, California, Joey Febres, West Coast Taekwondo, Jesse Crowder, Susan Wiggs, Chris and Carolyn Gilson, every one of my treasured readers, and last but never least, my children Connor and Courtney, who make it all worthwhile.

As always, I owe much to many wonderful people: Chris Keeslar and everyone at Dorchester Publishing, cover artist John Ennis, Romance Writers of America, Laurie Gold, Carolyn Stahl, Laura Novak, Pamela Fryer, the Lollies, Catherine Asaro, the paranormal romance listserve, the staff at Harley Davidson motorcycles in Rocklin, California, Joey Febres, West Coast Taekwondo, Jesse Crowder, Susan Wiggs, Chris and Carolyn Gilson, every one of my treasured readers, and last but never least, my children Connor and Courtney, who make it all worthwhile.

Images flickered through his head still, that Zoetrope of shuffling cards, and he pushed past Lolly.

She considered boiled lollies in all the colours of the millefiore brooch which her grandmother wore, and barley-sugar in long, glassy canes.

The only time their drink was varied was during the warm winter days when the flowers from the desert oak, a type of grevillea, were picked and soaked in coolamons of water to make a sweet drink like cordial or lolly water.

I had no idea whether the woman Patrick was tracking had anything to do with whatever drek Lolly had turned up, or whether Sutcliffe was simply paranoid about anyone asking any strange questions.

I went over menus with Jasmine and Lolly, tasting hollandaise sauce and bé.

I went over menus with Jasmine and Lolly, tasting hollandaise sauce and b&eacute.

It shone on the tears of small children whose ice lollies had just melted and fallen off the stick.

They sat on the ground or on logs, gnawing at their fish on sticks, surreally reminiscent of kids working away at big ice lollies.

She is sucking on a purple ice lolly and does not speak, only looks up at me.

He chose only after the most careful calculations, as he had done when a boy being offered lollies at the grange, and when he was through, the captain said, “You should have been here to choose two weeks ago.

Rape, killing civilians, looting—old Boris gets his lollies out of it.

Either Bambra was luckier than Lolly, or else Sutcliffe hadn't put the same time and effort into removing him.