sugarcube

plural sugarcubes

1. rareRare form of sugar cube.

   To bake a mind-altering cake nowadays, you’ve got to smash a few sugarcubes.

   1991, “Sonic Boom”, in Ira A. Robbins, editor, The Trouser Press Record Guide, 4th edition, New York, N.Y.: Collier Books, →ISBN, page 622, column 1

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   Small abstract sculptures in cast metal. A number of these gray pieces take the form of step-like towers that taper gradually toward the top. Others freely combine regular, geometric shapes—a cylinder, rectangle, or spiral—with dense aggregates of small sugarcube-like metal bits.

   1976, “Orenstein, Philip”, in Judith Tannenbaum, editor, New York Art Yearbook, 1975–1976, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Noyes Art Books, →ISBN, page 77, column 2

   He puts a few sugarcubes on the spoon and runs the alcohol over it, the sugar disintegrating into the liquid.

   2003, Krista Madsen, Degas Must Have Loved a Dancer, Livingston, Ala.: Livingston Press at The University of West Alabama, →ISBN, page 94

   Palate-wise, it was nothing new. It was a synthetic kind of coffee flavor, like spraypaint and tree bark. A few sugarcubes helped the cause, for both my tongue and my brain, the latter struggling to overcome irritation and get to that place of bright clarity, to attain that souped-up inconquerability that only coffee brings.

   2009, Benjamin Obler, Javascotia, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 352

   Another reason Pinky throws countless parties is that she REALLY loves eating sweets. So if you’re looking for her you’ll have a good chance at finding her at the Sugarcube Sweet Shoppe.

   2009, “Pinkie Pie”, in My Little Pony Adventures: The Animated Series – Show Bible, Hasbro, Inc.

   After the building was completed, a documentary film represented the massing as a series of sugarcube-like boxes.

   2014, James Stewart Polshek, Build, Memory, New York, N.Y.: The Monacelli Press, →ISBN, page 32