I’ve always said both. The kind you can just keep in your mouth, like dumdum or tootsie roll pops, those are suckers. The big round disk are lollipops. I’m from Texas.
Agree with all who said : lolipops are disk shaped and usually multicolored. Suckers are sperical. You lick a lolipop, and you, fittingly, suck a sucker.
Close, except suckers don’t have to be spherical. Flat candies on a stick can also be suckers if they’re small enough to be eaten as suckers.
Suckers were the cheaper-tasting product that was sold in bulk and often found in free candy bowls. Lollipops were more of a premium product that were sold individually and more for special occasions like when I was at a fair.
Flat, disk shaped, and anywhere from sorta big to the size of a pizza? Lollipop. Small enough to get in your mouth and generally NOT a flat disk? Sucker.
Thanks for the input. I thought “sucker” was an old-timey word only used in Bugs Bunny cartoons. I had, AFAIK, never heard it in the wild until I moved to California at about age 23. It also never occurred to me that shape makes a difference.