Definition of "candy"

They came down to buy sugar, flour, saltfish or candy from Nana, to collect letters and exchange gossip.

1991, Celia Brayfield, The Prince

Unwholesome pink and yellow candies were sold from trays.

1991, Ann Granger, A Season for Murder

Then while our hands were still connected, he slid a colorful beaded bracelet among the many others he had off of his arm and then onto my wrist without having to break our intertwined hands. "And there you have it! Your first piece of kandi."

2013, Kristen Lynn Harkey, State of Summer: Love and Misadventure of a College Student‎

The mantra of the rave is PLUR: peace, love, unity, respect, while the tribal badge is kandi: colourful bracelets made out of chunky beads (and not the same as candy, the drugs that might also feature, such as E or Molly).

2016, Susie Dent, Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain‎

The first candy bracelet I made was for myself. I alternated blue, orange, and glow-in-the-dark beads with letter beads that spelled “Ferari” to represent my (first) raver sobriquet, Ferrari Ravioli. (Yes, I spelled it wrong. I didn’t notice my typo at the time.)Side note: this is now referred to as “kandi” bracelets, but we spelled it the old-fashioned way.

2021, Samantha Durbin, Raver Girl: Coming of Age in the 90s‎