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

  • (..) Purposeless, emptiness, it's a vacuum isn't it. What's your vacuum like? Hey, hey, hey! Not now, Minion. I'm in a heated existential discussion with this dead-eyed plastic desk toy. I... is something wrong, sir? Just think about it. We have it all. But we have nothing. It's just to easy now. (..)
    2010 Megamind