toyboy
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɔɪˌbɔɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
toyboy (plural toyboys)
- (UK, Australia, sometimes derogatory, sometimes humorous) A young male partner for a woman or man.
- Synonym: boy toy (US; Canada)
- 1987, Stock Aitken Waterman, “Toy Boy”, performed by Sinitta:
- I'm out with my toy boy, toy boy / And when I get to take him home / I know he's gonna love me right
- 2019 December 18, Sophie Jane Evans, “How Madonna is falling for increasingly younger toyboys”, in The Sun[1], retrieved 15 March 2021:
- But Ahlamalik Williams, 25, is just the latest in a long line of toyboys 61-year-old Queen of Pop Madonna has been linked to since her spilt from long-term partner Guy Ritchie, after which she decided she 'wanted to have fun'.