life saver

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   a candy shaped like a small lifesaver

   Broadercandy

   trademark

Questions about life saver

What does life saver mean?

life saver means "a candy shaped like a small lifesaver".

Is life saver a common word?

life saver 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.