Candy Crusher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Candy Crushers
Etymology: From Candy Crush + -er.
Senses: examples: text: These “candy crushers” are among the millions who have become hooked on the online game Candy Crush Saga, which many play through Facebook.
ref: 2013 April 25, Joe Sylvester, “Gamers have a ‘crush’ on ‘candy’”, in The Times Leader, page 1C:
text: Sure, in the moment you may want to scream at a senior citizen, kick a puppy or burn your home to the ground, but there’s no greater feeling than bonding with another Candy Crusher over how insane the game makes you.
ref: 2013 June 21, John Boone, “6 Reasons Candy Crush Saga Is the Most Infuriating Game...Ever”, in E! News; quoted in Bob Johnson, “This Crush harmless; or at least that’s hope”, in Daily Journal, 2013 June 25, page B8:
text: For Facebook users, your progress up the levels can automatically be sent in updates to your Facebook friends (as well as fellow Candy Crushers who you probably don’t even know, so you can see how you measure up).
ref: 2013 July 30, Steve Dorfman, “Are you obsessed with Candy Crush? Popular online video game is not so sweet for relationships.”, in The Palm Beach Post, volume 105, number 128, page D5:
text: Now I must admit that unlike many of you fellow Candy Crushers I am only on a meager level 50.
ref: 2013 October 24, Kimberlei N. Davis, “‘Sweet,’ ‘tasty,’ ‘delicious’ … ‘Sugar Crush’”, in The Times and Democrat, volume 132, number 297, page A2:
text: Still, it’s not just the decline of civilisation that worries me, nor the (related) effect on Tube manners (Candy Crushers are rarely very chivalrous). Moreover, you could argue that if it wasn’t for smartphones, it would be Sudoku or crosswords or scrimshaw.
ref: 2014 March 26, Richard Goodwin, “Candy Crush is the crystal meth of the commute”, in Evening Standard, page 17:
text: It is open to everyone-from hardcore gamers to Candy Crushers and role-playing adventurers.
ref: 2014 September 21, “Philanthropies”, in News Sentinel, page 2E:
text: Each phone is taken from one of two cardboard boxes at the front of the bus, silently passed along between the Candy Crushers and, with an occasional over-the-shoulder gesture, moved through an elaborate process to another cardboard box in the back.
ref: 2018, Douglas Lain, The Bash Bash Revolution, Night Shade Books, →ISBN:
text: These are the slaves to technology: the Candy Crushers, the Facebook fanatics, the Insta-idlers, the Snapchat servants and Twitter twiddlers who spend every spare minute absorbed by their screens.
ref: 2018, Jack Lewis, The Science of Sin: Why We Do The Things We Know We Shouldn’t, Bloomsbury Sigma, →ISBN:
text: She loved music, old movies, and keeping up with family and friends via Facebook and email. She was an accomplished card player, Candy Crusher, and loved all social gatherings.
ref: 2019 June 25, “Rose A. Truscio: May 5, 1923 - June 21, 2019”, in The News & Observer, volume 155, number 176, page 7A:
text: ‘I’m quite partial to Candy Crush, I play it on my wife’s sometimes.’ […] Your bad marriage does not mean that my marriage will be bad you Candy Crusher, he thought to himself.
ref: 2020, L. O. Boult, Stag Hunt, →ISBN:
glosses: One who plays the tile-matching video game Candy Crush.