toy

Definition

  • noun: something a child plays with
  • noun: flirtatious or seductive behavior
  • verb: to act or deal with something lightly or without vigor or purpose
  • used to describe an animal (such as a dog) that is the smallest kind of a particular breed

Examples

  • ('US') a 'boy toy' = ('Brit') a 'toy boy' [=a young man who is having a romantic or sexual relationship with an older woman]

  • I 'toyed with' the idea of moving to France but ended up staying here.

  • She 'toyed' [='played'] 'with' her hair while she talked on the phone.

Movie quotes

  • (..) - Don't you have any friends around here? - No, I'm new. Why don't you just come in and play here? But you only have boy stuff. I want to play with my toys too, you know. How come you're a grown-up, but you don't have a wife? I don't know. - Don't you even have a girlfriend? (..)
    2015 Virgin Mountain
  • (..) - Yes, please. - Is this Ken? - No, it's an Action-Man. Do you have any Barbie dolls? No. - Don't you have any girls' toys? - No. What's this? It's a miniature model of the battlefield of El Alamein. What's that? (..)
    2015 Virgin Mountain