sex toy

See also: sextoy and sex-toy

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Noun

sex toy (plural sex toys)

  1. Any physical object or device that is primarily used to facilitate human sexual pleasure.
    Synonyms: joy toy, marital aid, sex aid, sexcessory (informal)
    Hyponyms: dildo, fleshlight, love doll, vibrator
    It is illegal to go to Mexico with more than three sex toys.
    • 2003, Hilda Hutcherson, “Sexual Enhancers”, in What Your Mother Never Told You about Sex, Perigee, →ISBN, page 169:
      As with all sex toys, be sure to use lots of lubricants and clean them regularly.
    • 2025 August 8, “Another WNBA game disrupted by sex toy thrown on court in Chicago”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 8 August 2025:
      A man was arrested Saturday in College Park, Georgia, after he was accused of throwing a sex toy on to the court during the Dream’s 29 July game with the Golden State Valkyries, according to a police report. The report said he threw another sex toy during the Dream’s game on Friday against the Phoenix Mercury.
  2. (by extension) A person willing to provide sexual pleasure to another at their beckoning.

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