Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

like candy

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.29 in modern English

Syllables: like -can-dy
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

prep_phrase

Freely (with no or few restrictions on distribution) and/or in large quantities.

Informal

Example Sentences

"But again, we run into this general problem. At some point you charge so much for your books that nobody uses them. … The staff is always on me because as Chairman I have the right to give some of these away and I'm giving them away like candy because I think they are so important to local communities."
"You're making full-blown cures and giving them out like candy."
""I suppose it could be. Course it could belong to any number of people, what with the feed store giving them out like candy.""

Usage

Informal

Questions

What does like candy mean?: Freely (with no or few restrictions on distribution) and/or in large quantities.

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