Definition of "candy" []

• A rich sweet confection made with sugar and often flavored or combined with fruits or nuts. (noun)
• A piece of such a confection. (noun)
• To reduce to sugar crystals. (verb-transitive)
• To cook, preserve, saturate, or coat with sugar or syrup. (verb-transitive)
• To make pleasant or agreeable; sweeten. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• ""It's like takin 'candy from a baby," he disclaimed."
• "As her presence was not required in the chamber, Katy went down-stairs to what she called the candy room."
• "Mohamed said Misrata's hospitals were seeing victims of what he described as candy bombs - something that resembles a pretty bottle."