lemon drop

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   a hard candy with lemon flavor and a yellow color and (usually) the shape of a lemon

   Broaderhard candy

Questions about lemon drop

What does lemon drop mean?

lemon drop means "a hard candy with lemon flavor and a yellow color and (usually) the shape of a lemon".

Is lemon drop a common word?

lemon drop 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.