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”),^[1] 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”).^[2]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛmən dɹɒp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛmən dɹɑp/

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• Hyphenation: le‧mon‧drop
• Rhymes: -ɒp, -ʌp, -ɔːp

lemon drop (plural lemon drops)

1. A yellow lemon-flavored and lemon-shaped candy.
   • 2013, Yanatha Desouvre, Walk Through This Journey: Volume One, →ISBN:

     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?

2. A cocktail of vodka with lemon juice and sugar.
   • 2025 June 19, Matt Lawton, “Super Smash Lovers Adventure” (12:02 from the start), in The Great North‎^[1], season 5, episode 16, spoken by Wolf Tobin (Will Forte):

     “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. 'Cause there are two of you and it looks like we're missing an entire wall. Whoa! [grunts] I'm okay. This freezing, extremely hard ice broke my fall.”

3. A variety of mangosteen, especially Garcinia intermedia, or sometimes the similar Garcinia madruno.

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