lollipop lady

1. 1.

   a woman hired to help children cross a road safely near a school

   Synonymslollipop woman

   Broadercrossing guard

   United Kingdom

Questions about lollipop lady

What does lollipop lady mean?

lollipop lady means "a woman hired to help children cross a road safely near a school".

What is another word for lollipop lady?

Close synonyms include lollipop woman. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lollipop lady a common word?

lollipop lady 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.