Definition of "cotton candy" [cotton candy]

• A light, very sweet candy of threaded sugar, often tinted with food coloring and twirled onto a stick. Also called spun sugar. (noun)

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• "Passing Mr. Luckner, Griffin saw him eating a huge cotton candy cone like a little kid."
• "They can snag free cotton candy at the Santa Monica Pier or drop in on Michael Jackson's dermatologist for 25-percent-off Botox injections so that frazzled commuters won't look quite so frazzled."
• "So did she, but to abandon the faÇade of cotton candy would be to lose all that had made her famous and desirable."