lemon drop

A small, hard, lemon-flavored candy.

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lemon drop

(Cookery) a lemon-flavoured boiled sweet

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lem′on drop`

a lemon-flavored lozenge.

[1800–10]

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lemon drop - a hard candy with lemon flavor and a yellow color and (usually) the shape of a lemon

hard candy - candy that is brittle; "you can break a tooth on that hard candy"

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