doll

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   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!”

3. 3
   noun

   A good-natured, cooperative or helpful person.

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

4. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   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. 7
   name

   A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy.

   O! run, Doll, run; run, good Doll.

8. 8
   noun

   a small replica of a person

Etymology

* As a south German surname, from toll (“mad, foolish”). * Also as a German surname, spelling variant of Thiel. * As an English surname, from the adjective dull, cognate with the first German derivation. Also compare Dill.