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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

  • (..) David, I did something terrible. I'm sure you didn't mean to hurt her. That thing I killed, was not Olivia. He's losing too much blood. Baby, he needs water and sugar, okay? Go. - Go! - Okay, okay. - Alright. - David... I read a passage from that book. (..)
    2013 Evil Dead