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toy boy (plural toy boys)
- (idiomatic, colloquial) A young male lover of a significantly older woman or man.
- 2004, Pauline Lobban, Double Lives of Teachers, page 176:
- Miriam returned to work three weeks later with a new wardrobe and her toy boy lover had a brand new Toyota Camry.
- 2010, Noelani Morrell, Crisp Whites, page 233:
- The anger bubbled up in him, "So that's it, is it? Thanks for all the ****, that was tops, but I've got this real life that I'm not going to... disrupt for some teenage toy boy—is that the situation, Nina?” His face was twisted with fury.
- 2010, Marian Janssen, Not at All What One Is Used To: The Life and Times of Isabella Gardner: page 94,
- Gardner alone did not judge Congdon for his sexual orientation; even Robert, who in his mid-twenties as a budding artist also had become very close to Congdon, condemned him for his secretive, complicated relationships, which often involved much younger or uneducated toy boys.
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