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lemon drop

Syllables: le·mon·dropUK/ˈlɛmən dɹɒp//ˈlɛmən dɹɑp/

lemon drop noun: a yellow lemon-flavored and lemon-shaped candy.

Noun

lemon drop (plural lemon drops)

  1. A yellow lemon-flavored and lemon-shaped candy.
    • Dill had hit upon a foolproof plan to make Boo Radley come out at no cost to ourselves (place a trail of lemon drops from the back door to the front yard and he’d follow it, like an ant).1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 15, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
    • I remember those times. The corner bodega shops with the quarter waters and yellow lemon drops and the now and later, Do you remember then?2013, Yanatha Desouvre, Walk Through This Journey: Volume One, →ISBN
  2. A cocktail of vodka with lemon juice and sugar.
    • “Honeybee. Sorry. Breakfast beers turned into lunchtime lemon drops, and next thing you know, we were three dinner-tinis deep, and then we saw that stray cat again, so obviously we had to follow it and... Whoa!” “Hey, Wolf. [singsongy] Welcome home. [chuckles]” “I must be drunker than I thought....2025 June 19, Matt Lawton, “Super Smash Lovers Adventure” (12:02 from the start), in The Great North, season 5, episode 16, spoken by Wolf Tobin (Will Forte)
  3. A variety of mangosteen, especially Garcinia intermedia, or sometimes the similar Garcinia madruno.

lemon drop meaning in Kannada

lemon drop in Kannada

ನಿಂಬೆ ಪತ್ತಾಸು, ಮಿಠಾಯಿ

Forms of lemon drop

plurallemon drops

Origin of lemon drop

Literally lemon + drop. From the combination of lemon (referring to the flavor of the candy) and drop (referring to the shape of the candy, often a small, smooth, oval, or circular shape). The word lemon Inherited from Middle English lymon, from Old French lymon (“citrus”), and the word drop comes from Middle English droppe, Middle English drope (“small quantity of liquid; small amount of something; speck”), from Old English dropa (“a drop”).

Words formed from lemon drop

Words that rhyme with lemon drop

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Questions about lemon drop

What does lemon drop mean?
Lemon drop means a yellow lemon-flavored and lemon-shaped candy.
What is lemon drop in Kannada?
Lemon drop in Kannada is ನಿಂಬೆ ಪತ್ತಾಸು, ಮಿಠಾಯಿ. See Lemon drop meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is lemon drop?
Lemon drop is a noun.
How do you pronounce lemon drop?
Lemon drop is pronounced /ˈlɛmən dɹɒp/ (UK).
What is the plural of lemon drop?
The plural of lemon drop is lemon drops.

Words near lemon drop in the dictionary

  1. Lemon Cove
  2. lemon cucumber
  3. lemon cucumbers
  4. lemon curd
  5. lemon curds
  6. lemon drop
  7. lemon drop martini
  8. lemon drop martinis
  9. lemon drops
  10. lemon eucalyptus
  11. lemon eucalyptuses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lemon drop (page history and authors); lemon drop (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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