sugar

A food consisting of small, sweet crystals, principally of sucrose, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used as sweetener and preservative.uncountable

• Even in extreme cases such as chemical pollution in the Florida Everglades from heavily subsidized sugar farming, strong regulations are routinely blocked by industry.

Any specific variety of sugar.countable

• The experience of sugar planters in Louisiana this year in holding their sugars in warehouse for future sales at better prices has revealed again, as it has done heretofore, the fact that the presence of moisture in the sugars is inimical t

Any of various small, water-soluble carbohydrates such as are used by organisms for energy and various other purposes.countable

• 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.
• Generally speaking, plants have a much greater variety of sugars and linkages than animal tissues have.

A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.countable

• He usually has his coffee white with one sugar.

A bowl or other container of sugar.countableuncountable

• Pass the sugar, please

A term of endearment.countable

• I'll be with you in a moment, sugar.

Affection shown by kisses or kissing.slanguncountable

• Gimme some sugar, baby.

Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.SouthernUSslang

• I think John has a little bit of sugar in him.

Diabetes.informaluncountable

• The veterinarian said his real problem was that he had sugar, and not to concentrate on the problem with his eyes.
• The doctor told me I had sugar and would have to take pills.

Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.countabledateduncountable

• Sugar of lead (lead acetate) is a poisonous white crystalline substance with a sweet taste.

To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.transitive

• John heavily sugars his coffee.

To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.transitive

• She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words.

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.CanadaUSregional

• A long time ago my grandmother and I used to boil maple sap. When she sugared off, I stood there.
• During the spring in Quebec and Ontario, maple syrup is harvested, or "sugared off," a process which is usually celebrated as a social event.

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.
• The latter are best taken by "sugaring" — painting patches of mixed beer and sugar on a series of tree trunks, and making several rounds at twilight with a lantern and a cyanide bottle.

To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.transitive

• You can sugar the syntax of constants thus: […]
• Sure, you could sugar the latter to look like the former (effectively implementing closures as objects), but it seems simpler to just allow the former.

To compliment (a person).transitive

To remove hair using a paste of sugar, water, and lemon juice.

Minced oath of shit.

• Oh, sugar!