Definitions for TOY

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TOY toy

Spelling: [toi]

IPA: /tɔɪ/

Toy is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 12 anagrams from letters in TOY (oty).

Definitions for TOY

noun

1. an object, often a small representation of something familiar, as an animal or person, for children or others to play with; plaything.
2. a thing or matter of little or no value or importance; a trifle.
3. something that serves for or as if for diversion, rather than for serious practical use.
4. a small article of little value but prized as a souvenir or for some other special reason; trinket; knickknack; bauble.
5. something diminutive, especially in comparison with like objects.
6. an animal of a breed or variety noted for smallness of size:
7. a close-fitting cap of linen or wool, with flaps coming down to the shoulders, formerly worn by women in Scotland.
8. a simple, light piece of music, especially of 16th or 17th century England, written for the virginal.
9. Obsolete. amorous dallying. a playful or amusing act; diversion; pastime.

adjective

1. made or designed for use as a toy:
2. of or resembling a toy, especially diminutive in size.

verb (used without object)

1. to amuse oneself; play.
2. to act idly; or with indifference; trifle:
3. to dally amorously; flirt.

Origin of TOY

1275-1325; Middle English toye dalliance; of obscure origin

Examples for TOY

Then last week, a 12-year-old in Cleveland shot dead for holding a toy gun.

I often find myself in the toy aisle, having an existential crisis.

For decades, toy production and marketing was increasingly gender neutral.

He was sitting on the floor with our boy gravely intent on a toy circus.

A car was indeed dispatched, with no mention that the suspect was possibly a juvenile and that the gun might be a toy.

We learn first to play with it academically, as the magnet was once a toy.

I know that I cannot carry a gun in public and neither can my sons, even if it is a toy.

He wrapped the toy vane in a piece of paper and handed it to his small patron.

You were but a lad learning to fly your first toy helics when that happened.

Even this toy of a train brings us, in thirty minutes, to Beirut.