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sugar bowl

[ shoog-er bohl ]

noun

  1. a small bowl, usually having a cover, for serving granulated sugar or sugar cubes.
  2. Slang. the community of people who sugar date.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sugar bowl1

An Americanism dating back to 1765–75
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Example Sentences

Thornsberry kicked open the front door and hurled a sugar bowl at the TV.

Utah faces off with Alabama for the first time in the New Orleans Sugar Bowl.

But at tea-time she almost relented when she saw Teddy look into the sugar-bowl, and turn away without taking a single lump.

But Buster Bumblebee did not find anything that really pleased him until he paused at a fat sugar-bowl.

Quick as her movements were, Mary caught a smell of strong green tea, and the sight of a sugar bowl and a slice of white bread.

Observing the child craning his neck to see the inscription on the sugar-bowl, she turned it towards him.

He wears his London frock coat and gloves; and his tall silk hat is on the table beside the sugar bowl.

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