Sugar-plum

noun, verb, slang

noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A round or oval sweet/piece of candy made of boiled sugar.
  2. 2
    A piece of flattery. dated
  3. 3
    Term of endearment: sweetheart, darling.
  4. 4
    Uapaca kirkiana, an southern African fruit tree.
  5. 5
    The fruit of this tree.
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  1. 6
    The prune plum.
Verb
  1. 1
    to daydream colloquial, idiomatic, intransitive

Synonyms

All synonyms
boiled sweetbullydarlingheartlasslove

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