sugar

noun14

1. •
   a food made of tiny hard bits that taste sweet and come from plants, often put in drinks

   • Even in extreme cases such as chemical pollution in the Florida Everglades from heavily subsidized sugar farming, strong regulations are routinely blocked by industry. — 2013
2. •
   Any specific variety of sugar.
3. •
   A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.

   • He usually has his coffee white with one sugar.
4. •
   Any of various small, water-soluble carbohydrates such as are used by organisms for energy and various other purposes.

   • At the end of the second week there were less reducing sugars in the unpruned plants than in the previous week, but those in the pruned plants were the same. — 1942
5. •
   A term of endearment.

   • I'll be with you in a moment, sugar.
6. •
   A bowl or other container of sugar.
7. •
   (informal) Diabetes.

   • The veterinarian said his real problem was that he had sugar, and not to concentrate on the problem with his eyes. — 2003
8. •
   (slang) Affection shown by kisses or kissing.

   • Gimme some sugar, baby. — 1992
9. •
   Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
10. •
    Syntactic sugar.

    • However, this bookkeeping is much less local syntax and sugar. — 2005
11. •
    (old-fashioned) Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.

    • Sugar of lead (lead acetate) is a poisonous white crystalline substance with a sweet taste.
12. •
    (US, slang) Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.

    • I think John has a little bit of sugar in him.
13. •
    (US, slang) Heroin.
14. •
    (slang, old-fashioned) Money.

verb7

1. •
   To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.

   • John heavily sugars his coffee.
2. •
   To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.

   • Some entomologists assert that it is useless to sugar when ivy is in bloom. — 1876
3. •
   To remove hair using a paste of sugar, water, and lemon juice.
4. •
   To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.

   • She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words.
5. •
   (US, Canada) In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; with the preposition off.

   • A long time ago my grandmother and I used to boil maple sap. When she sugared off, I stood there. — 1994
6. •
   To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.

   • You can sugar the syntax of constants thus: […] — 2002
7. •
   To compliment (a person).

exclamation1

1. •
   (informal, euphemistic) Minced oath of shit.

   • Oh, sugar!

noun1

1. •
   radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter S.