candy pull
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of candy pull
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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The candy pull remains in the ideas folder.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2019
He allowed the scholars to throw spit-balls, snap apple-seeds, eat molasses candy, pull each other's hair, and have fine frolics.
From Winning His Way by Coffin, Charles Carleton
The candy pull was a great success, the ropes of sweet stuff being thrown over low-hanging limbs where the candy was pulled and pulled amid much laughter and many shouts.
From The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas by Aldridge, Janet
But she declared that he had given them more fun than if he had not come over, and the molasses had cooled and they had had a regular candy pull.
From Zip, the Adventures of a Frisky Fox Terrier by Higgins, Violet Moore
When I first saw you all thus engaged, for the benefit of the public, I thought it was a candy pull.
From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson
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