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Definition of gobstopper in English: gobstoppernoun ˈɡɒbstɒpəˈɡɑbˌstɑpər British A large, hard spherical sweet. 〈主英〉大块球形硬糖 Example sentencesExamples - Bruisers, Astro Belts and gobstoppers all hint at the ranks of jars in proper sweet shops and the ranks of boys fighting it out in schools across the country.
- On the one hand the child Karl (Carlo came later) recounts a world of Barret's Sherbet Fountains, Black Jacks and gobstoppers, a child's world of powerful sensations and distinctive smells.
- The pupils, from Lady Lumley's School, in Pickering, have all been disciplined for their part in the incident in which a gobstopper was thrown against a car windscreen.
- Defeats are always difficult to swallow but this one must leave a sizeable lump akin to an everlasting gobstopper lodged in the throat of York City.
- ‘They're gobstoppers,’ she blurted out and then began to cry.
- Everyone knows that you can twiddle and twiddle the handle, but unless you put a 20p coin in, you will not get a gobstopper.
- Richardson held out the ball, with outstanding generosity, like someone trying to placate a recalcitrant child with a gobstopper.
- The cadences and rhymes of such poems linger, sweet and familiar as a well-sucked gobstopper, to be rolled round the mouth again and again as one grows up.
- That did not stop us from going in for our Uncle Joe's mintballs, liquorice shoelaces and gobstoppers, but I was always glad to get out.
- They have their own lexicon of heady-scented concoctions like chews and gobstoppers, Flying Saucers and Black Jacks.
- The dogs barked and strained at the end of their chains, wide brown collars cutting into jugulars, eyes, savage and bloodshot, bulging like gobstoppers.
- He caught the bag a bit stiffly and this lump came up like a little gobstopper under his skin.
- Now, in theory at least, children could buy unlimited quantities of Spangles, gobstoppers and sweet cigarettes.
- It was hard work, I was getting crotchety, and tonight the blisters on my calves are as big as gobstoppers.
- I used to love the penny tray which was full of gobstoppers, bubblies, Spangles and Jelly Tots.
- Some sweets are equipped with surprising visual and flavour effects: gobstoppers change colour when sucked, sherbet fizzes in the mouth, and bubble gum is as much about bubbles as sweetness.
- Actually, despite my prolonged absence from the dentist's chair, my childhood obsession with gobstoppers and a nasty habit of opening bottles of beer with my teeth, I only had to have two fillings.
- Afterwards one of them, a lisping seven-year-old by the name of Jimmy Poole, sidles up to him in his office and offers him a half-sucked gobstopper dug up from a fluff-filled corner of his pocket.
- Short of an ever lasting gobstopper, Coke's lab is kicking around a ready-to-drink cup of coffee that can be heated in a microwave, plus a purple carbonated soft drink made from ripe, unroasted coffee beans.
- My lifelong enthusiasm for cheap sweets stems, I fancy, from the fact that, when I was in rompers, our allowance was only about four ounces of bullseyes and gobstoppers a week.
- It is a hive mind of little tyrants who, despite their penchant for gobstoppers, can shred minds at will and have mankind on their list.
Definition of gobstopper in US English: gobstoppernounˈɡäbˌstäpərˈɡɑbˌstɑpər British A jawbreaker. Example sentencesExamples - Defeats are always difficult to swallow but this one must leave a sizeable lump akin to an everlasting gobstopper lodged in the throat of York City.
- Richardson held out the ball, with outstanding generosity, like someone trying to placate a recalcitrant child with a gobstopper.
- The cadences and rhymes of such poems linger, sweet and familiar as a well-sucked gobstopper, to be rolled round the mouth again and again as one grows up.
- He caught the bag a bit stiffly and this lump came up like a little gobstopper under his skin.
- Short of an ever lasting gobstopper, Coke's lab is kicking around a ready-to-drink cup of coffee that can be heated in a microwave, plus a purple carbonated soft drink made from ripe, unroasted coffee beans.
- The pupils, from Lady Lumley's School, in Pickering, have all been disciplined for their part in the incident in which a gobstopper was thrown against a car windscreen.
- On the one hand the child Karl (Carlo came later) recounts a world of Barret's Sherbet Fountains, Black Jacks and gobstoppers, a child's world of powerful sensations and distinctive smells.
- Some sweets are equipped with surprising visual and flavour effects: gobstoppers change colour when sucked, sherbet fizzes in the mouth, and bubble gum is as much about bubbles as sweetness.
- It is a hive mind of little tyrants who, despite their penchant for gobstoppers, can shred minds at will and have mankind on their list.
- Afterwards one of them, a lisping seven-year-old by the name of Jimmy Poole, sidles up to him in his office and offers him a half-sucked gobstopper dug up from a fluff-filled corner of his pocket.
- Bruisers, Astro Belts and gobstoppers all hint at the ranks of jars in proper sweet shops and the ranks of boys fighting it out in schools across the country.
- Now, in theory at least, children could buy unlimited quantities of Spangles, gobstoppers and sweet cigarettes.
- That did not stop us from going in for our Uncle Joe's mintballs, liquorice shoelaces and gobstoppers, but I was always glad to get out.
- I used to love the penny tray which was full of gobstoppers, bubblies, Spangles and Jelly Tots.
- The dogs barked and strained at the end of their chains, wide brown collars cutting into jugulars, eyes, savage and bloodshot, bulging like gobstoppers.
- It was hard work, I was getting crotchety, and tonight the blisters on my calves are as big as gobstoppers.
- Everyone knows that you can twiddle and twiddle the handle, but unless you put a 20p coin in, you will not get a gobstopper.
- ‘They're gobstoppers,’ she blurted out and then began to cry.
- My lifelong enthusiasm for cheap sweets stems, I fancy, from the fact that, when I was in rompers, our allowance was only about four ounces of bullseyes and gobstoppers a week.
- They have their own lexicon of heady-scented concoctions like chews and gobstoppers, Flying Saucers and Black Jacks.
- Actually, despite my prolonged absence from the dentist's chair, my childhood obsession with gobstoppers and a nasty habit of opening bottles of beer with my teeth, I only had to have two fillings.
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