doll

noun

1. 1

   A small figure resembling a human being that is used as a toy.

   "A thousand dollars are money, my father used to say when he drove fat oxen to market," replied John Wilde, in a mocking tone; "but it will not leave my hands for that shabby price; and, for my own part, it may ornament the foot of my daughter's doll."

2. 2

   slangAn 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.

3. 3

   slangAn attractive young woman. A transgender woman or transfeminine person, especially one that has a highly sexual and feminine personal style.

4. 4

   slangAn attractive young woman. A transgender woman or transfeminine person, in general.

5. 5

   datedA term of endearment

   Heading home from a party, two hipsters, completely stoned, pause to snuggle on a park bench. A fire engine roars by, bells clanging, sirens screaming. The boy flips. “Solid, doll,” he murmurs, “they’re playing our song!”

   "They didn't sell cigarettes where you were, doll?" Palmer asked.

6. 6

   A good-natured, cooperative or helpful person.

   Won't you be a doll and fetch me a glass of water?

   Ow! These things are defective. Pipsqueak, be a doll, I need a new pair, pronto!

7. 7

   The smallest or pet pig in a litter.

8. 8

   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.

9. 9

   slangA 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.

10. 10

    A pixel art depiction of a person, typically customized from a base template.

verb

1. 1

   Synonym of doll up.

noun

1. 1

   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,” […]

verb

1. 1

   To place a barrier in front of (a section of the course that is to be omitted from a horse race).

   [object Object]

noun

1. 1

   obsoleteSynonym of dollar.

noun

1. 1

   Variant of dalobsoleteObsolete form of dal.

verb

1. 1

   obsoleteTo warm moderately; to make tepid; to mull.

Forms

plural

dolls, dollz

past tense

dolled

past participle

dolled

present participle

dolling

third person singular

dolls