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noun
candy, often fruit flavored, made by boiling together sugar and corn syrup.
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Origin of hard candy
First recorded in 1920–25
Words nearby hard candy
hard-boil, hard-boiled, hardboot, hard bop, hardbound, hard candy, hard case, hard cash, hard cheese, hard cider, hard clam
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