Meaning of toffee apple | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A candy apple.
   Commonwealth, Ireland, UK
2. A kind of British trench mortar used in World War I.
   Ireland, UK, historical, slang

Examples

“Toffee apples and fairy floss are often sold as fairground snacks.”

“Here we would find, perhaps, three 18-pounder guns dug in as antitank defences supplemented by 60 lb "toffee apple" trench mortar bombs buried as makeshift anti-tank mines.”

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