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sugar

Definition

  • noun: a sweet substance usually in the form of white or brown crystals or white powder that comes from plants and is used to make foods sweeter
  • noun: a sweet crystallizable material that consists wholly or essentially of sucrose, is colorless or white when pure tending to brown when less refined, is obtained commercially from 'sugarcane' or sugar beet and less extensively from sorghum, maples, and palms, and is important as a source of dietary carbohydrate and as a sweetener and preservative of other foods
  • verb: to put sugar on or in (something)
  • verb: to make palatable or attractive
  • usually plural
  • synonyms: sweeten, ambrosia, angel

Examples

  • Half the patients were given the medication and the other half received a 'sugar pill'.

  • heavily 'sugared' coffee/tea [=coffee/tea with a lot of sugar added to it]

  • politicians getting money from their corporate 'sugar daddies'

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) till you couldn't breathe. You'd do that? Yes. Yes. Did you get everything? Yes, I did. BUTCH: Good job, sugar pop. Did everything go as planned? You didn't listen to the... Ow! You didn't listen to the radio? I never listen to your fights. Were you the winner? (..)
    1994 Pulp Fiction
  • (..) Esmarelda Villalobos. Buenas noches, Butch. FABIENNE: Keep the light off. BUTCH: Is that better, sugar pop? Oui. FABIENNE: Hard day at the office? Pretty hard. I got in a fight. (..)
    1994 Pulp Fiction