lucky charms

proper noun

A breakfast cereal containing a combination of wheat-based pieces and marshmallows in various shapes.

Meanings

lucky charms1

noun
  1. pluralplural of lucky charm

Lucky Charms2

proper noun
  1. A breakfast cereal containing a combination of wheat-based pieces and marshmallows in various shapes.

    I'd eat two bowls of Lucky Charms and the next thing you know, I'd be sticking the spoon down my throat.

    2002, Daisy Hernández, Bushra Rehman, Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism, page 362
    3 more examples

    He holds a bowl of Lucky Charms in his left hand and extends his right. "I don't usually eat these. Nita was having some." "I do," Louisa says.

    2001, Paul Kafka-Gibbons, DuPont Circle: A Novel, page 12

    I don't give a damn where yo' Lucky Charms-eating ass came from; just get yo' leprechaun ass up front to the visiting room now!

    2005, Nedra M. Shivers, Redeeming Daddy, page 1

    One of the greatest joys of living alone is the complete freedom to eat Lucky Charms by the handfuls straight out of the box.

    2007, Rhonda Pollero, Knock Off, page 28

Origin

Trademark, launched in the 1960s, from lucky charm.

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 幸運符谷物早餐麥片 /幸运符谷物早餐麦片
  • 幸運符谷物早餐麥片 /幸运符谷物早餐麦片 (xìngyùnfú gǔwù zǎocān màipiàn)breakfast cereal
Finnish Lucky Charms
  • Lucky Charmsbreakfast cereal
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Chicago

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