candy

noun

1. 1

   Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup.

2. 2

   Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.

   They came down to buy sugar, flour, saltfish or candy from Nana, to collect letters and exchange gossip.

3. 3

   A piece of confectionery of this kind.

   Unwholesome pink and yellow candies were sold from trays.

4. 4

   slangcrack cocaine.

5. 5

   An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.

   candy kid; candy raver

   Then while our hands were still connected, he slid a colorful beaded bracelet among the many others he had off of his arm and then onto my wrist without having to break our intertwined hands. "And there you have it! Your first piece of kandi."

   The mantra of the rave is PLUR: peace, love, unity, respect, while the tribal badge is kandi: colourful bracelets made out of chunky beads (and not the same as candy, the drugs that might also feature, such as E or Molly).

   The first candy bracelet I made was for myself. I alternated blue, orange, and glow-in-the-dark beads with letter beads that spelled “Ferari” to represent my (first) raver sobriquet, Ferrari Ravioli. (Yes, I spelled it wrong. I didn’t notice my typo at the time.) Side note: this is now referred to as “kandi” bracelets, but we spelled it the old-fashioned way.

verb

1. 1

   To cook in or coat with sugar syrup.

2. 2

   To form into congelations or crystals, especially of sugar or syrup.

   Fruits preserved in sugar candy over time.

3. 3

   To become candy; to solidify into a candylike form or mass.

noun

1. 1

   obsoleteA unit of weight used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.

Forms

plural

candies

past tense

candied

past participle

candied

present participle

candying

third person singular

candies