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love toy en · NOUN
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(obsolete) Amorous play; flirtation, lovemaking.
They cannot abide to hear talk of love-toys, or amorous discourses, vultu, gestu, oculis, in their outward actions averse, and yet in their cogitations they are all out as bad, if not worse than others.
1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, III.1.1.i:
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An object to be played with during sexual intercourse; something or someone used for sexual pleasure; a sex toy.
But Clinton wasn't clever, according to Starr. He wasn't even awake, it seems. To keep his love toy under wraps, it's charged, he enrolled every friend, acquaintance and staff member other than the senior White House tour guide.
1998 September 21, Walter Kirn, “What the guys think: Clinton's a screw-up”, in Time:
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