boy toy

noun

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

Examples of boy toy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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 Recent movies The Idea of You and A Family Affair and books like The Winner are embracing the idea that women of a certain age are thirsting for boy toys and honestly, that’s feminism. Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 3 July 2024 Her little enemies-to-lovers crush on Robert is also bolstered by her new gripe with Douglas and by Dinah encouraging her to follow her lead and get a boy toy of her own. Tom Smyth, Vulture, 3 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for boy toy 

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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 9 Sep. 2024.

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