Brits, help?

[imabrat]

What's a lollipop lady?
I'm reading British gossip rags and I've already seen Cheryl Cole and Sharon Stone mentioned as a "lollipop lady". The only thing I can gather is that it means anorexic?
Help.

 

[PigletGurl]

i dont think any brits are awake at this hour lol

 

[chisnpeke]

I've heard that expression before. I'm pretty sure it means a girl with a really thin body and a head that looks abnormally large, so it looks like a lollypop.

 

[marypops!]

This is a lollypop lady:

They help children cross the road by standing in the middle of the road, which tells drivers to stop. They normally work outside schools.

 

[marypops!]

Wait, I just reread what you said, and you don't mean that lollypop lady... I had to do a Google search and found this in an article. "Her slight figure and bouffant hair caused something of a 'lollipop' effect - a trend often attributed to Hollywood stars when their heads are out-of-proportion with their tiny bodies."

That's the first i've heard that expression.

 

[Disney Princess Elli]

I've never heard of that except for what George said about people helping kids cross the road.
What magazine was it in?

 

[xXTierneyXx]

i think it means someone with a very thin body, basically anorexic. other than that the only 'lollipop lady' i know of is those that help children cross roads on the way to school

 

[CrazyChik]

A lollipop lady to me is someone who crosses the kids over roads with their stop signs and reflectives xD
I'm guessing they mean a tiny stick like body with a big-head though wether that means physically big or not I don't know.

 

[CrazyChik]

i dont think any brits are awake at this hour lol

George could've been and as you can see we all picked it up later.

 

[imabrat]

hm. interesting. i've never heard it before and it was mentioned twice in the daily mail so i thought it british.

another thing, that's a lollipop lady? we just call them crossing guards here.

 

[CrazyChik]

hm. interesting. i've never heard it before and it was mentioned twice in the daily mail so i thought it british.

another thing, that's a lollipop lady? we just call them crossing guards here.

I myself don't know where the term came from but I think it's pretty sweet

Oh and you get the daily mail over there?

 

[Smiley.Socks]

When I read the title of the thread, I thought of thin people with big heads.
That's what I think they mean.

 

[LondonUnderground]

I thought it was about the normal lollipop people like the picture above aha

 

[chisnpeke]

I myself don't know where the term came from but I think it's pretty sweet

Oh and you get the daily mail over there?

A lot of people just read it online I think.