boy toy

noun

: a usually young man considered as an object of sexual desire

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Robert makes excuses for his presence there (something about needing papers signed by Nicole), but Nicole’s daughter sees right through him, clocking him as Nicole’s boy toy, of which her daughter suggests Nicole had many. Nina Li Coomes, Vulture, 18 Aug. 2024 There, Cohn will send over one of his boy toys to invite Donald to dine with him at his table with his coterie of gangster clients. Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024 Preferably, by a beefed up boy toy half her age who wants nothing more than to pleasure her. Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 3 July 2024 The trials and travails of Doctor Frank-N-Furter (Bart Perry), who crafts boy toys as a profession with varying degrees of success, is infused with both hilarity and a core with smooth power ballads. David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 25 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for boy toy 

Word History

First Known Use

1982, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of boy toy was in 1982

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“Boy toy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boy%20toy. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.

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