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mind candy (uncountable)
- (slang) Pleasurable diversions; entertainment that serves no higher purpose.
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2008, Cate Garrison, Choice Cuts of Lamb, ISBN 0557012465, page 119:- I read Mysteries (in which I include all the sub-classes of police dramas, detective novels and old-style who-dun-its) because, like good food and drink, I damn well like them; they pass the time pleasantly; they are mind-candy;
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2009, Nicholas Karapondo, The Pen: A Sonata and Fugue on the Eternal State of Being, ISBN 1438956797, page 581:- The world will offer you eye candy, ear candy, mind candy. . . any and all diversion to keep you from initializing the Covenant with the Source
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2010, Alison Kent, Bound to Happen, ISBN 1426853319, page 18:- Ray was her fantasy, her mind-candy, as were her plans for his seduction.
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