candy cane

1. 1.

   a hard candy in the shape of a rod (usually with stripes)

   Broadercandy

Questions about candy cane

What does candy cane mean?

candy cane means "a hard candy in the shape of a rod (usually with stripes)".

Is candy cane a common word?

candy cane is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.