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doll

UK /dɒl/US /dɑl/

noun 12
verb 3
forms 4
phrases 1

noun12

a toy for children that is a small model of a person
(Internet) A pixel art depiction of a person, typically customized from a base template.
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(slang) An attractive young woman.
- Some fine day we may have the country raised, and the gendarmes down upon us from Strasburg, and all owing to your pretty doll, with her cunning ways of coming over you. — 1861
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(US, old-fashioned) A term of endearment
- "They didn't sell cigarettes where you were, doll?" Palmer asked. — 2008
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(US) A good-natured, cooperative or helpful person.
- Won't you be a doll and fetch me a glass of water?
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(slang) A barbiturate or amphetamine pill.
- Each night she looked at the bottle of Seconals with affection. She never could do this without the dolls. She would have spent sleepless nights, smoking, worrying—and she would have lost her nerve. — 1966
(slang) A transgender woman or transfeminine person, in general.
(slang) A transgender woman or transfeminine person, especially one that has a highly sexual and feminine personal style.
The smallest or pet pig in a litter.
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A short signal post mounted on a bracket mounted on the main signal post, or on a signal gantry.
- The signals are on a three-doll bracket post; one doll carries two [signal] arms, one above the other. — 1943
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A temporary barrier used in horse racing.
- On a beautiful spring morning, after the “dolls and chains” had been removed to allow the horses room to pass through, in galloping “across the flat,” […] — 1885
(US, no longer used) Synonym of dollar.

verb3

(UK) To place a barrier in front of (a section of the course that is to be omitted from a horse race).
Synonym of doll up.
(no longer used) To warm moderately; to make tepid; to mull.

forms

dolled · dolling · dolls · dollz

Phrases with doll

doll up
To dress up finely or elaborately; to deck up. (often of ostentatious display)

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