doll

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

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

2. 2

   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.
3. 3

   A 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.
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   1. 4

      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!
   2. 5

      The smallest or pet pig in a litter.

   3. 6

      A short signal post mounted on a bracket mounted on the main signal post, or on a signal…

      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.
   4. 7

      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.
   5. 8

      Synonym of doll up.

   6. 9

      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,” […]
   7. 10

      To place a barrier in front of (a section of the course that is to be omitted from a…

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

   8. 11

      Synonym of dollar.

   9. 12

      Obsolete form of dal.

   10. 13

       To warm moderately

       To warm moderately; to make tepid; to mull.

   11. 14

       A township and rural village in Sutherland, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref…

       A township and rural village in Sutherland, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NC8803).

   12. 15

       A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy.

       • O! run, Doll, run; run, good Doll.
   13. 16

       A surname.

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