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The phrase "a cough drop" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a medicated lozenge designed to soothe a sore throat or suppress a cough.
Example: "I always keep a pack of cough drops in my bag during the winter months to help with my dry throat."
Alternatives: "a throat lozenge" or "a cough lozenge."
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Or a cough drop from hell.
Can you bring a cough drop?
The sponsor was -- who else? -- a cough drop maker.
RUBE JACKTER (who seems to be sucking a cough drop): How are you feeling?
Her husband sat nearby, typing on a computer, pausing to offer a cough drop.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla .— Ben Ferencz pops a cough drop into his mouth, "to loosen my ancient throat". Where to begin his improbable story?
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She finally hit upon a solution - clipped the likenesses of the two Smith Brothers from a cough-drop box.
In 1847, a stranger passing through the town of Poughkeepsie liked their oyster stew wo well that he gave them a cough-drop recipe.
(He speaks of his "hoo-mane" interest in Hazel's case and brings with him a flock of other specialists who look like they stepped off of a cough-drop box).
Of never going home again, forgetting all my clothes and toys to live out of a small smiley-face suitcase in this paneled room facing the bright-blue pool that cools strangers by day but basks ignored and bottom-lit by night like a cough-drop-colored moon.
It somehow looks like a giant lozenge, a blue cough drop for Zeus.
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