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

  • (..) Perhaps they might have... if you hadn't made a sideshow of yourself. - You thought I didn't have it in me. - Now, you led a bloated police force on a merry chase with a load of fancy new toys from Fox. What about when you come up against him? What then? - I'll fight harder. I always have. (..)
    2012 The Dark Knight Rises