syrup

noun

• 1 [mass noun] a thick, sweet liquid made by dissolving sugar in boiling water, often used for preserving fruit.
• a thick, sweet liquid containing medicine or used as a drink:cough syrup
• a thick, sticky liquid obtained from sugar cane as part of the processing of sugar.
• excessive sweetness or sentimentality of style or manner:Mr Gurney’s poems are almost all of them syrup

• 2British informal a wig: he has been bald for the past twenty years, his shame concealed by a syrup of some opulence

  [from rhyming slang syrup of figs]