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toy
noun- a can in which opium is stored, whether the can is tin, tinned iron or another metal; a small amount of opium US, 1934
- What you did was, you took a toy (a tin) of hop and shook it up with this medicine in a bottle and kept taking it every day. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 254, 1946
- All we found were some empty “toys” of opium. — Harry J. Anslinger, The Murderers, p. 37, 1961
- They used to sell in what the Chinese call “toys.” — Jeremy Larner and Ralph Tefferteller, The Addict in the Street, p. 159, 1964
- any object that is used for sexual stimulation during masturbation, foreplay, sexual intercourse or fetish-play US
- A significant part of the content of gay magazines is taken over by advertisements for “toys” – a revealing euphemism, evoking childhood, for implements of “torture”: steel clamps, branding irons, whips, straps, even handcuffs. — John Rechy, The Sexual Outlaw, p. 255, 1977
- — Caroline Archer, Tart Cards, 2003
- a desk with an attached bookcase UK
- — The Felstedian, December 1947
- a computer system US
- — Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 355, 1991
- an inexperienced or incompetent graffiti artist US
- — Los Angeles Times, p. B10, 5 January 1990
- in drag racing, a dragster (a car designed specifically and exclusively for drag racing) US
- — John Lawlor, How to Talk Car, p. 107, 1965
- a gun US
- At one point in the conversation, Varela asked him if he had any access to get “toys,” street slang for guns. — Palm Beach Post, p. 1A, 6 March 2009
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