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| Shopping | The largest selection of TOY products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| NOUN | 1 | toy, plaything | An artifact designed to be played with |
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| 2 | toy | A nonfunctional replica of something else (frequently used as a modifier) | |
| 3 | toy, miniature | Copy that reproduces something in greatly reduced size | |
| 4 | toy, toy dog | Any of several breeds of very small dogs kept purely as pets | |
| VERB | 1 | toy, dally, play, flirt | Behave carelessly or indifferently |
| 2 | toy, fiddle, diddle, play | Manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | |
| 3 | toy, play | Engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously |
| Sounds | toy' |
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| Rhymes | Tolstoy |
| Meaning | An artifact designed to be played with. |
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| Synonyms | plaything |
| Broader | artifact, artefact |
| Narrower | ball; balloon; cockhorse; doll, dolly; dollhouse, doll's house; Frisbee; hobby, hobbyhorse, rocking horse; hula-hoop; jack-in-the-box; jungle gym; jumping jack; kaleidoscope; kite; Lego, Lego set; Meccano, Meccano set; pea shooter; pinata; pinwheel, pinwheel wind collector; playhouse, wendy house; pogo stick; popgun; puzzle; rattle; sandbox, sandpile; seesaw, teeter, teeter-totter, teetertotter, teeterboard, tilting board, dandle board; slide; slingshot, sling, catapult; stick horse; swing; teddy, teddy bear; top, whirligig, teetotum, spinning top; train set; water pistol, water gun, squirt gun, squirter; yo-yo |
| Verbs | toy |
| Meaning | A nonfunctional replica of something else (frequently used as a modifier). |
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| Examples | "a toy stove" |
| Broader | replica, replication, reproduction |
| Meaning | Copy that reproduces something in greatly reduced size. |
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| Synonyms | miniature |
| Broader | copy |
| Meaning | Any of several breeds of very small dogs kept purely as pets. |
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| Synonyms | toy dog |
| Broader | dog, domestic dog, Canis familiaris |
| Narrower | Chihuahua; Japanese spaniel; Maltese dog, Maltese; Pekinese, Pekingese, Peke; Shih-Tzu; toy spaniel; toy terrier |
| Meaning | Behave carelessly or indifferently. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
| Synonyms | dally, play, flirt |
| Similar to | dally, trifle, play |
| Broader | act, move |
| Nouns | toying |
| Meaning | Manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
| Synonyms | fiddle, diddle, play |
| Broader | manipulate |
| See also | toy with |
| Narrower | put out, retire |
| Meaning | Engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "toy with an idea" |
| Synonyms | play |
| Broader | act, behave, do |
| Nouns | toy |
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