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sugarbowl

sugarbowl is the alternative form of sugar bowl.

Meaning of sugar bowl

Noun

sugar bowl (plural sugar bowls)

  1. A small receptacle for serving sugar on a table or on a tray.
    Synonyms:
    sucrier, sugar basin
  2. The legal maxim that searches must be limited to areas which could reasonably contain evidence relevant to the purpose for which the search warrant was granted. (The maxim is often quoted as "if you are looking for stolen televisions, you cannot look in sugar bowls")

Forms of sugarbowl

pluralsugarbowls

Questions about sugarbowl

What is sugarbowl the alternative form of?
Sugarbowl is the alternative form of sugar bowl.

Words near sugarbowl in the dictionary

  1. sugarbeets
  2. sugarberries
  3. sugarberry
  4. sugarbird
  5. sugarbirds
  6. sugarbowl
  7. sugarbowls
  8. sugarbush
  9. sugarbushes
  10. sugarcakes
  11. sugarcane

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sugarbowl (page history and authors); sugar bowl (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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