noun
- a large, hard, round candy that changes color as you suck it
- something that is very large or impressive
Usage: chiefly British; informal
Usage: informal; figurative
Examples
- The child sucked on a gobstopper for hours.
- She bought a bag of gobstoppers at the candy shop.
- That's a real gobstopper of a problem to solve.
- The gobstopper changed from red to blue to green as he chewed it.
- He told a gobstopper of a lie.