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toy English

Meaning toy meaning

What does toy mean?
Definitions in simple English

toy

A toy is something that you can play with. A toy is something that isn't very important or doesn't have much value.

toy

If you toy with something, you play with it or make fun of it. To toy with something is to consider it. I have been toying with the idea of starting my own business.

toy

(= plaything) an artifact designed to be played with a device regarded as providing amusement private airplanes are a rich man's toy a nonfunctional replica of something else (frequently used as a modifier) a toy stove (= fiddle, play) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination She played nervously with her wedding ring Don't fiddle with the screws He played with the idea of running for the Senate (= play) behave carelessly or indifferently Play about with a young girl's affection (= toy dog) any of several breeds of very small dogs kept purely as pets (= miniature) a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size (= play) engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously They played games on their opponents play the stock market play with her feelings toy with an idea

Synonyms toy synonyms

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Topics toy topics

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Conjugation toy conjugation

How do you conjugate toy?

toy · verb

Examples toy examples

How do I use toy in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He gave the child a toy.
Please fix my toy.
It's not a toy!
That toy is made out of wood.
There is a toy shop in the neighborhood.
She bought a toy for the boy.
He was pleased with the toy.
This toy car runs on batteries.
The toy department is on the fifth floor.
His grandfather bought him the expensive toy.
I live next door to the toy shop.
The boy has taken the toy away from his little sister.
She bought a toy for her child.
My toy is broken.
The toy store is closed.
I'm not a real fish; I'm just a cuddle toy.
Tom appealed to his mother to buy a new toy for him.
He is very proud of his toy.
He was playing with a toy.
Don't play with that gun. It's not a toy.
That toy is made of wood.

Movie subtitles

But, day and night, you could not free your spirit from this place. You seemed to be Satan's toy.
What a delightful toy.
Except that we toy a little, spin a little, have a barrel of fun.
They're too expensive a toy for two children to play with.
Half a house, cute as a toy!
A mechanical toy better than - than any of mine?
We get him a new toy and within half an hour it's smashed to bits.
Tell Michael I couldn't find a toy submarine.
When you threw that thing out, I thought it was some sort of a toy parachute or something.
The baby has a toy.
Toy department, please?
I keep track of the toy market pretty closely.
Whether Macy or somebody else sells the toy doesn't matter.
You're the head of the toy department, huh?
Because I am quite a fragile toy.
And I'll get the rest of it from our master the toy maker.
Well don't you mind, Mother Peep I'll get the full amount from the toy maker.
Listen, when the toy maker finds out that Barnaby's up to his old tricks again he'll give me the full amount without any problem.
You know the toy maker and I are just like that.
Say listen, when you get that money from. -.the toy maker will you borrow a little extra for me?
Hello mister toy maker.
He and the toy maker are not like that.
A toy.
He's like a spoiled boy who picks watches to pieces but loses interest in one toy as soon as he's given another.
I'll give him a toy to delight his heart so full of bizarre complications that he'll forget all about the first toy, that letter.
One of them toy things.
Van, I've got a brand new kind of a steam cabinet some fellow in Belgium invented, and I tell you, I'm like a kid with a toy.
You broke your toy trumpet!
You wouldn't happen to have anything in the toy line, would you?
Oh, the toy birds.
She's only a toy for you.
I just did the most foolish thing imaginable. I squandered the price of a breakfast on a toy that is quite inedible.
We're going to build a big house and there'll be a big garden, too. and all kind of toys. a toy-railway and a train. and a bear, a teddy bear.
Well, don't be. Oh, the casino was exciting, of course, but let's face it, I'm just a hick from Chicago who found a bright, new shiny toy.
That's your bright, new shiny toy?
Why do you toy with me?
George, let's show Michel his toy.

News and current affairs

Dogs are able to follow human pointing gestures to find hidden food, and they can indicate successfully to their owners by their own pointing actions where a hidden toy is located.
We see examples in many of our neighbors, where democracy seems to exist formally, but where everybody understands that it is a toy democracy.
Trade economists who complain about minor instances of protectionism sound like a child whining about a damaged toy in the wake of an earthquake that killed thousands.
After all, his home and toy factory are at the North Pole, which, according to the minister's interpretation, belongs to Canada.
Although many Iranian leaders no doubt toy with the idea, others are carefully weighing the costs of such a venture - the risks of preventive strikes from outside, increased isolation, and a regional nuclear arms race.
Some Arab leaders still toy with the idea that overthrowing him might yet salvage a united Sudan, but it is probably too late for that.