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rocks

What does rocks mean?

Hard boiled sweets. The classic Brummie playground phrase is "crash the rocks" — meaning share the sweets out with your mates, no exceptions.

"Got a quarter of pear drops — crash the rocks!"

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What does rocks mean as slang for sweets?
It refers to boiled sweets — the hard kind you suck rather than chew.
How do you use rocks in a sentence?
"Nan always kept a bag of rocks in her handbag for us."
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